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Volume 73 - Issue 2 - October 21, 2002
Negative Campaigning, Mudslinging, Out of Hand?
There has been considerable fall
out since Republican Mike Taylor's cam-paign
ended Thursday, Oct. 10. The
Billings Gazette reported that Taylor was
on his way to Washington, D.C., for a
fund-raiser Wednesday morning when
he called Alan Mikkelsen, his campaign
manager, from the Salt Lake City air-port
to say he had decided to call it quits.
Campaign spokesman, Bowen
Greenwood, in the USA Today, "At this
point, in order to win, Mike Taylor would
have to stoop to their [Democrats] level."
Taylor, a 61-year-old state sena-tor
and wealthy businessman, told re-porters
he decided to "suspend my cam-paign
because my opponents lies about
me are hurting my wife, my family, my
friends, my party, and most of all Mon-tanans
from all walks of life. His deci-sion
was announced less than a week
after Democrats began airing a TV ad
accusing Taylor of a scam involving stu-dent
loan money when he ran a beauty
school in Colorado.
Taylor visited our campus twice in
the past few months. On his first visit in
July, Taylor spoke with Chancellor Ron
Sexton about his stance on education.
Dr. Sexton said that Taylor acknowl-edged,
that MSU-Billings needs help
through Congressional support.
Back-wash of Conservatism
It has been said that some Re-publicans
and right-winged Christians
have spent the past years demeaning
gays and lesbians, contributing to ho-mophobia.
On Oct. 10 that strategy
appeared to backfire on conservative
Taylor, who as a Republican had never
spoke out against homosexuals.
"People get caught up in ho-mophobia,"
said
Taylor in the Ga-zette.
"I have
never sullied
them.
"People
believe what they
see," Taylor said,
speaking of the
ad run by the
Montana Demo-crats.
Although
the Democratic
Party arranged
the ad, Taylor put
the blame on
Sen. Max
Baucus.
Sen. Baucus' only comment at
press time was, "I want to wish Mike
Taylor and his family well. There are
many important issues facing Montana,
and I will continue to work hard to ad-dress
them in the coming weeks."
The ad showed footage of Taylor
applying lotion to another man's face.
According to the Gazette, Taylor said,
that he demonstrated beauty tech-niques
on women 99 percent of the time
on his TV show.
"The implication is clear," Taylor
said. He told reporters that this ad was
an attempt by Democrats to portray him
as a homosexual. Democrats denied
this charge.
Speaking on the homosexuality
issue, Leigh-Ann Whitworth, a beauti-cian
in Butte and vice president of the
Montana State Cosmetology Associa-tion
told the Gazette, "I don't understand
what being a gay male hairdresser has
to do with being a good U.S. senator.
This whole thing seems silly to me."
Table of causes
Taylor was trailing Baucus badly
in the polls. Taylor, a senator from the
tiny town of Proctor, was the GOP can-didate
opposing Baucus, who is running
for a fifth term in the Senate. A recent
poll by the Lee Newspapers of Montana
showed Baucus' lead at 54 percent to
Taylor's 35 percent. Robert Kelleher
from Butte of the Green Party had one
percent and Libertarian Stan Jones of
Bozeman had none. Ten percent were
undecided. The poll had a margin of
error of plus/minus four percentage
points.
It was reported by the Gazette that
Taylor's campaign ended with just
$40,000 in the bank and $60,000 in bills.
In announcing his decision to
abandon his campaign, Taylor told re-porters,
"When you don't have the
money, without putting your own money
in, to defend your good reputation and
name, when you're on the defense and
you don't have the White House step-ping
up enough financially, then you have
a problem."
According to the Gazette,
Mikkelsen said the campaign had hoped
to raise $50,000 from an upcoming fund-raiser
and was planning others in Cali-fomia
before the Democratic Party un-veiled
its commercial. But even that
money would have been enough to con-tinue
commercials for just another week.
Dan Allen, press secretary for the
National Republican Senatorial Commit-tee,
said on Friday, Oct. 11 that the or-ganization
had spent $600,000 to air TV
ads in Montana since mid-Sept.
At the Polls
There was doubt that anyone
would be interested in running as a write-in
candidate, given the timing and the
tone of the race. When you go to the
polls Nov. 5, Mike Taylor's name will still
be on the ballot. Montana law requires
Taylor's name to remain on the ballot
and does not allow Republicans to an-nounce
a replacement. Write-in candi-dates
have until Oct. 21 to file.
'Write-ins must be spelled cor-rectly
by voters, and the voters must
check the box of the lined space pro-vided,"
said Jim Gransberry of the Bill-ings
Gazette. With this given, the write-in
candidates have a near impossible
chance of winning. It is still unclear to
what course of action the Republicans
will take."
The Democratic Party believes
they are not responsible for Taylor drop-ping
out of the running. In a phone con-versation
with Barrett Kiser, Press Sec-retary
of the Democratic Party of Mon-tana,
he said, "Mike Taylor didn't pull out
of the race because of the advertise-ments,
he pulled out because he couldn't
defend his record, he doesn't have sup-port
of Montanans. He was way behind
in the polls before the ad ever aired."
When the entire balance of Con-gress,
particularly in the Senate with its
one-seat margin at stake this year, vot-ers
may see some different tactics be-ing
used, ones that are even more nega-tive
and more expensive than in cam-paigns
of the past.
"It is stunning to me that this hap-pened,
that less than a month out from
the election that a candidate has simply
withdrawn," Craig Wilson, political sci-entist
at MSU-Billings, told reporters
Thursday.
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From the Editor
Janna Huhtala
Editor-in-Chief
WHEW! It has been a very long
week in the newsroom. Political and
ethical lines were crossed, you could
cut the tension with a butter knife, and
nerves were high in the office when
deadlines needed crunching!
Getting our first taste of some
bad medicine may have slowed pro-duction
a little, but it sure boosted
moral. Every reporter, staff writer and
editor were working together to get sto-ries
done right and advertisement sold.
It was a sight for sore eyes.
I am so proud of this paper, I
could tear up right now if my aqua
ducts weren't dry and my eyes weren't
so red and splotchy.
This issue of The Retort has a
little bit of everything for the really picky
readers. Stories ranging from funding
and fixing our little college, to the per-
OCTOBER 21 , 2002
ils of bad politics. We have a wide
variety of opinions in this issue
ranging from smoking, to moving
to what's up with those darn
weather forcasters?
This staff has been working
their butts off and their hands to the
bone to get some really tough, in-teresting
and even controversial
stories We sure do love contro-versy.
So if you see a blurry eyed,
messy haired, have asleep student
wandering the halls you can bet
they are either a freshman or from
the Retort staff. Give them a high
five, a kind word or if you are really
brave give them a hug. Let them
know their long hours are not com-pletely
worthless.
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Photo by Larissa Leonard
The Faculty Support Services office has been buz-fing with
activity since they moved to an office in the LA building. The
employees have also had their hands fill with the renovation
project in the LA building.
[ NEWS 1----40
OCTOBER 21, 2002
Funding Your Education, Tuition Increase
Shaunna Pierce
Copy Editor
The state's current eco-nomic
crisis means ever-increas-ing
tuition costs for students at
Montana's colleges and universi-ties.
This is in spite of the find-ings
of a study, called Measuring
Up 2002, which gave the state an
"F" rating for affordability of
higher education, one of only 13
states to receive this rating. Prior
to this year's legislative budget
recommendations, an average
Montana family spent 25 percent
of its income at four year colleges
and universities, compared to 18
percent nationally. That same
study states that Montana's poor-est
families would have to pay
more than 20 percent of their in-come
for tuition at the state's
least expensive colleges, com-pared
to a national average of
just 8 percent. The study also
found that Montana contributes far
less financial aid to its low-income
students than the rest of the na-tion.
At MSU-B, 80-85 percent of
students receive some form of fi-nancial
aid. The majority of this
aid is in the form of student loans
which the student must repay upon
graduation. MSU-B also has a low
default rate on its student loan re-payment,
regardless of the fact
that the average student leaves
college $16-17,000 in debt. An
additional point of interest is the
fact that while 65 percent of stu-dents
at MSU-B are Yellowstone
County residents, the largest por-tion
of recruitment funding goes for
attracting out-of-state students.
The University System bud-get
lost 8.4 percent of its total state
support—$12.4 million—in the
special legislative session. Forty-two
percent of those cuts will be
replaced by the current tuition
surcharge. This surcharge av-erages
$193.53 per student for
this fiscal year only. An addi-tional
11.9 percent tuition in-crease
had already been ap-proved.
Tuition at Montana's public
institutions has taken on the form
of a user fee. In 1992, for every
three dollars of state funding,
only one dollar of university bud-geting
came form student tuition.
In 2003, it is projected that for
every one dollar of state funding,
two dollars of tuition money will
be needed. That is how little
funding now comes from state
support. And the Legislature
could decrease even that
amount because the university
system has alternative funding in
the form of tuition monies.
There are Legislators who
would like to see a ballot initia-tive
to use Coal Tax money for
educational funding. There are
others who point to the bankrupt-ing
of the Educational Trust Fund
in the past who think it is a bad
idea to use Coal Tax money with-out
a way to replace it. Regents
would like to see future tuition in-creases
accompanied by presen-tations
on what budget cuts could
be made instead. Then they can
better decide if the increase is
necessary. Before, regent John
Mercer, Poison, once a State Leg-islator,
never knew what differ-ence
a $5 or $10 million cut made
to the state University system
budget. Now, the new policy
would publicize the effects of re-duced
funding every time. Univer-sity
of Montana President George
Dennison sees a time in the near
future when Montana's public uni-versities
will become private in-stitutions
unless the current fund-ing
trends are reversed.
installed. Since all new hardware was
required for the new door knobs, it also
made sense to add door locks. Sec-ondly,
the final vision for the L.A. build-ing
en-tails
u p -5
grad-ing
all
class-rooms
with
n e w
c om-puters,
projec-tors,
Elmos,
a n d
other
ad-vanced
tech-nology.
The new door locks are a security
measure and can be configured to be
unlocked by swiping ID cards, and
thus programmed so that they permit
only certain people such as staff and
students to unlock the classrooms.
The new door locks will record who
and when unlocks the doors so that if
any of the new equipment is damaged
or becomes missing school, admin-istrators
will know who was last in the
room.
Brett Harrison
Staff Writer
For the last five months the L.A.
Building has been undergoing exten-sive
renovations. Many of the renova-tions,
which started just after gradua-tion
in May, were completed through-out
the summer. One of the first things
done was the replacement of the roof.
The L.A. Coffee Shop has been re-modeled
and completely redesigned.
The dining area was moved to the front
and a new wall was created within the
shop to facilitate food display and ac-cess.
The cashiers were moved from
the northern side of the shop to the
southern side and thus traffic is diverted
through the newly organized coffee
shop. The glass doors on the back wall
are now easier to access for students
who wish to go outside on the deck.
The old coffee shop had an Imac com-puter
for students to use, which was a
nice convenience. However, after the
renovations, the Imac is absent. The
bookstore in the L.A. building was
moved into a remodeled room across
from the L.A. Coffee Shop. A new Hon-ors
Center on the second floor was
substantially renovated. New lighting
was installed and ceiling tiles were re-placed
throughout the building. New
carpet has also been installed. The Stu-dent
Support Services has been relo-cated
and is now next to the library.
The art department in the basement is
receiving a new air system to help vent
paint fumes. For the rest of the building
ducting will remain the same but there
will be a
new air
condi-tioner
as well
some
n e w
thermo-stats.
Many of
the ther-mostats
are old
a n d
brittle so
repairs
are be-ing
con-ducted
on a
case-by-case basis. A new sprinkler sys-tem
was installed for fire protection and
asbestos was removed from the build-ing
to bring the building up to code.
Restrooms have been updated to
accommodate as manyADA concerns
as possible, with new handicapped en-trances
and automatic doors on the first,
second, fifth, and seventh floors. All new
door knobs have also been installed on
classroom doors. In accordance with
the ADA, a lever style doorknob was
Complete
The elevators in the L.A. Build-ing
are being completely replaced.
Work on the south elevator should be
completed by November and by Feb-ruary
all three will be replaced. The
wait is due to a long lead-time on el-evator
equipment needed to corn-plete
the job.
As for the old Student Support
Services space on the second floor, it
is being turned into what will be the
model classroom for the rest of MSU-Billings.
The classroom will be tiered,
which means the seats will be set at
an incline like that of a stadium, and
the classroom will be equipped with
state-of-the-art equipment and light-ing.
This work is scheduled to be fin-ished
by the end of October.
On the first floor, the west stair-case
in front of the garden has been
removed and the entryway will be
renovated into a major entryway with
new glass front doors that will be handi-cap
accessible. It will open up like a
courtyard with an all glass front. The
Steel Gallery will be moved in on the
first floor opposite from the garden and
it will be all new. The Art Gallery
on the first floor will also be an all
new gallery, renovated and up-dated
with new carpet and lights.
The work being done on the first
floor is scheduled to be completed
in November.
L.A. Building Renovat ions Nearly
What do they do?:
Student Resolution Officer
The Associated Students of
Montana State University — Bill-ings
employs a Student Reso-lution
Officer (SRO) to assist
students with various academic
and non-academic questions
and concerns. The purpose of
the SRO is to help students re-solve
problems, refer them to
the appropriate University of-ficer
for assistance if necessary,
and provide support and guid-ance
to them as they follow the
student complaint resolution
procedure.
Whitney Ewing, the cam-pus
SRO, has been chosen to
be the mediator between stu-dents
and faculty members or
University Administrators. She
has put together a five-step pro-cess
for students to follow if
they have grade complaints.
Step One: Contact the
ASMSU — Billings SRO and
schedule a time for you and the
instructor of the course you are
contesting, to meet to discuss
the assigned grade. This will
take 10 days to set up.
Step Two: This is the ini-tial
meeting with the professor
and student. If not successful
in this meeting, the student is
responsible for furthering the
process. They then have 20 cal-endar
days to set up a meeting
with Department Chair.
Step Three: Here, the
student's second meeting with
staff, the complaint goes in front
of the chair. If the issue is not
resolved, the student needs to
write a formal complaint within
10 days to the Dean or Vice
Chancellor. The SRO can help
contact these people.
Step Four: This is the third
and final meeting before com-plaints
go in front of a commit-tee.
You will meet with the su-pervising
Dean or Vice Chancel-lor.
If nothing is resolved at this
meeting, the complaint goes to
the Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs. The hearing must be set
up within 10 days after com-plaint
received.
Step Five: The Hearing
Committee consists of three
faculty and three students.
They have 30 days to hear the
case and make a final decision.
Ultimately, it is the respon-sibility
of the student filing the
complaint to abide by the time
restrictions set in the 2002-2003
Student Handbook. It is also the
student's job to complete each
part of the process, not the SRO
job. The SRO is there as a re-source,
an observer, and
documenter of the events.
To contact Whitney Ewing
you can call her at the ASMSUB
office at 657-2365, or go to her
office in the SUB, room 213. If
there are any questions about
the SRO you can refer to the
Student Handbook, pages 122
through 124.
Dance with a Professional
OCTOBER 21, 2002 [ NEWS }----$0
Indications of Progress
Deanna Utroske
Creative Editor
The MSU-B Center for Applied
Economic Research (CAER) recently
announced the initial findings in its se-ries
of macroeconomic indicators for
the Billings region. The CAER is a
service organization of the University
which was established almost five
years ago upon the suggestion of
Chancellor Ron Sexton.
CAER's Senior Economist Ann
Adair explained in a recent interview
that the Center is contract funded "by
outside groups or entities." That
means that whatever private or gov-ernment
body employs their services
pays all the expenses the Center in-curs
during that employment. In the
case of the Economic Indicator Se-ries
the Center was funded by regional
corporate sponsorship. Each of the
eleven sponsors has committed to
three years of funding for the series.
Economic indicators are statis-tical
data on things like building per-mits,
tourism statistics, retail sales,
and port of entry shipments. Once
gathered and compiled by the Cen-ter,
these indicators will be published
monthly in the Billings Gazette and
aired on KTVQ2 (both corporate se-ries
sponsors). While MSU-B stu-dents
may not be tuning in for these
reports, local business people will.
The indicators will help all business
people in the region to make produc-tion,
marketing, and other administra-tive
decisions. By watching the eco-nomic
increases and decreases, busi-ness
people can predict the
economy's likely impacts on their par-ticular
field. Most predictions of eco-nomic
impact, or forecasts, will be
made by the Center rather than by
individual businesses. Major predic-tions
such as economic downturn or
improvement across the region are
the most valuable for business
people to acquire.
Besides the target business
audience, some students may in.
fact be tuning in for the series re-ports.
CAER currently employs one
College of Business student as an
intern to assist in the economic in-dicator
series and is seeking an-other
to work with housing data the
center analyzes.
At present there are no plans
to integrate the Center's findings
with instruction at the COB. But, be-cause
Adair is teaching faculty in the
COB, she thinks that in the future
such integration could not only hap-pen
but also prove beneficial to the
students.
Currently both the state and
nation gather economic data and
compile reports. The University of
Montana gathers state-specific
data. But such state and national
agencies do not want the expense
of refining this data to the Billings'.
area regional or county level. Yet
this is what will really assist local
business people in making their de-cisions.
According to Adair the
government's "interest is really
what's going on at the national
level." Though students may not be
on the edge of their seats awaiting
each month's indicators report, over
time they will notice a more efficient
business environment in Billings.
Having up-to-date and region-specific
data will allow businesses
to adapt to regional economic
changes quickly and appropriately.
Business patrons will eventually
notice increased variety and avail-ability
plus decreased prices. The
CAER should prove a motivivational
force in the progress of Billings area
business.
Press
Release
Bill Kline, a professional
dance instructor from New York
City is coming again this year on
Saturday Nov. 2 to teach three
dance workshops.
Kline will be offering the fol-lowing
lessons:
The Lindy Swing, 1-3 pm
The Charleston, 3-4 pm
The Brazilian Samba, 4-5 pm
Prices are very reason-able,
and even more so for all
three workshops. These lesson
times fill up fast, so please sign
up early by calling Lorn at 248-
6133 or Marge at 259-7412.
Workshops will be held at
the beautiful Montana Dance
Action Studio at 14 North 29th
street (only two doors south of
the Athenian Restaurant, and
across the street from the
Guadalajara Restaurant in Bill-ings).
All are welcome and en-couraged
to attend.
Infi) g•aithic
provided by
C'.-1 ER. This
graphic shoirs
the greater
Billings. Region
f•om which the
-1 ER gathers
the economic
indieatiors.
Photo by Jennifer Fenton
Iron Horse. clesigned by student s ut AEU-Billings was
sohl at auction to benifit the Ho rse ofCourse Project .
[ CAMPUS LIFE 1-o OCTOBER 21, 2002
Pranks Taken Seriously at MSU-B
Larissa Leonard
News Editor
Recently a fire alarm was
pulled in the west stairwell, in
Rimrock Hall. People were dis-rupted
from sleep at three a.m.
The Rimrock RA's, Wendy Haker
(Rimrock Resident Director),
and the fire department jumped
in right away to try to find the
person who pulled the alarm.
They started from the top floor
and worked their way down.
Jeannie Mclsaac-Tracy, Director
of Housing and Residential Life,
stated, "We take pranks ex-tremely
seriously."
"We do not have fire
alarms pulled as frequently as
other universities. We did not
have any pulled last year and
have only had one pulled this
year," she stated.
Pulling the fire alarm is
most serious prank, but stu-dents
have pulled all kinds of
pranks ranging from door jam-ming
with pennies, and myste-rious
bowling balls, to more se-vere
crimes. While obscene
message get more attention, all
reported pranks are investi-gated.
A person receiving an ob-scene
message on their answer-ing
machine or dry erase board
should report this incident im-mediately.
The person receiv-ing
the message will be asked
questions about the message
from the Housing Staff and then
the incident will be turned over
to campus police. The student
might be asked, "Do you have
any idea who might have left the
message?"
Campus police and the
housing staff question students
about the incidents that go on,
an example of a question asked
might be, "Who was the last
person you saw in the hallway?"
Mclsaac-Tracy will listen to
what each student has to say
when caught and decide what
the punishment will be. The
punishment might be being told
to move off campus. A person
who thought of pranking before
reading this article may want to
think twice before pulling a
prank.
Sculpture Students Give Back to Community
Jennifer Fenton
Staff Writer
If any of you visited down-town
Billings this summer, you were
sure to see at least one horse
sculpture. That horse, plus another
34 life sized horses and four colts,
was part ofa fundraising project to
help with the renovation of the
Depot. What you probably didn't
know was that 12 MSU-B sculpture
students designed one of those
horses. The project began about a
year and a half ago when the Depot
board was looking into fundraising
projects to help fund the Depot
renovation. Other cities through out
the United States had done similar
projects, including Whitefish, MT. Sue
Olson, President of the board, said,
"If Whitefish can handle a project
like this then maybe was not too
small to try ft."
The board then went to work
planning the layout of the project.
Jane Waggoner Destine, who was
helping with the fundraising, had so
me close friends that were artists
from around the area and asked
them if they would be interested in
doing the project. Artists interested
in the project were to make a
composite of what their horses
would look like. Then a jury would
select a few horses to be sculpted
into the life sized horse sculptures.
The artists were then told if their
idea had won and when they could
pick up or have their mold of the
horse delivered.
All of the horses were deliv-ered
by Feb 2002. The final project
had to be completed by April 2002.
Once the horses were complete
they were stored in the old Nau-tilus
building until the grand show-ing
of them in May. The horses
were placed around Billings for the
public viewing until the auction, held
Sept. 7, 2002.
Meanwhile, MSU-B sculpture
students were challenged by their
profes-sor
to
do a
project
for the
com-munity
a n d
r e -
mem-bered
seeing
t h e
Horse
course
project advertised in the Gazette.
She presented the idea to her
fellow classmates and they decided
to run with it. Teresa called on the
project and just as luck would
have ft got the last available horse.
The horse was available because
another artist had backed out.
Starting later then the rest of
the artists, the students began work-ing.
Many ideas had gone through
the student's minds and they still
hadn't settled on just one. Some
liked the idea of doing a technol-ogy
horse but others did not. Des-tine
brought the idea to the o
theirs that nobody had done a
horse formed around the depot,
and after all this is what the
project was for. Nickoloff and 11 of
her students liked that idea and
decided they would design a horse
shaped like a locomotive. The
students used the locomotive lo-cated
at the Peter Yeagen Jr. Mu-seum
at Logan International Airport
as their model from which they
would work. The construction of
the horse took shapeattheArt Annex
where 80 to
100 hours
were put in
to complete
the horse just
before the
deadline. The
horse was on
display at the
Depot.
Nickoloff,
along with
Cory Wagner,
Joe Krahnert,
Shawn Th-ompson,
Eric
Henry, Kenneth Alefteras, Cathy
Brekke, Clayton Beeghley, Brian
Hutchinson, Clayton Zuelke, Cilon
Bonzer, and Dan Cole were the
students who were resposible for
designing the Iron Horse. Nickoloff
told of the struggles they had gone
through trying to find materials that
would work and the long hours
they had to put in and the other
projects they had on the side.
They also faced frustration as some
students slacked off and left the
remainder of the work up to a just
few students, but mentioned that in
the end it all came together. Sculp-ture
student, Teresa Nickoloff had
thought of doing something well.
Wagner, one of the students
who was mainly responsible for the
Three-dimensional design of the
horse, met with me at Art Space,
located downtown, to talk about the
project and what it meant to him.
Upon meeting Wagner, he appeared
very casual and in tune with the
setting; he wore a vintage pair of
eyeglasses and leather cap that
would not have worked on anybody
but him. He told me about the
process of putting the horse to-gether
and some of the materials
they had to work with for instance
they used heater duct parts, air
conditioning duct parts, automotive
putty, and latex caulking, just to name
a few. Wagner said that the
project had mainly lain on the
shoulders of three students and
that it was difficult at times to get
other things completed. H e said
that he felt it was phenomenal
when it was completed, he was
happy to be a part of something
that raised money giving back to
the community; he is also a volun-teer
at the Yellowstone Art Mu-seum.
Wagner said of Zuelke and
himself, we said that we would do
this and wanted to the best job
possible. Of the horse, doing a train
horse embodied what the project
was all about.
The Iron Horse was pur-chased
by Sandra M. Foxley,from
Denver, CO and is now located at
her home in Roundup, MT. The
project raised a total of $470,000,
exceeding the goal of $350,000.
The money will go toward the
renovation bill. The project was a
great success, and for those of you
who did not get to see any of the
horses some of them are still
located in the city for viewing.
OCTOBER 21, 2002 [ CAMPUS LIFE
The Campus Beat
are hosting political candidate forums and
will set up informational tables for students
questions. The dates for the forums are
scheduled for October 16 at 10 am, Oc-tober
21 at 9:30 pm, and October 24 at 2
pm. There is also money in the contin-gency
account that organizations can
apply for if needed.
• The karaoke night at Stingers in
the SUB will be on October 22 at 7 pm,
this event is held by Chi Alpha. Their
meetings are Thursdays from 7 pm to
8:30 pm in LA148.
• The Cheerleaders are hosting a
Cheer Camp November 2 and 9 from 1
pm to 5 pm for kid's ages 4 to 12. The
cost is $25, which includes a t-shirt, a set
of pom-poms, a snack, and instruction
from the MSU-B Cheer team and Coach
Dani Ruoff. The children will also get the
chance to perform at the November 9
Women's Volleyball game and later on at
a Women's Basketball and a Men's Bas-ketball
game. Pre-registration is highly
recommended and if not parents are ad-vised
to be there at 12:30 pm on Novem-ber
2 . If there are any questions you can
contact Dani Ruoff at 657-2060.
• There is going to be an Athletic
Auction on October 23 at 5:30 to raise
money forAthietic Scholarships.
• RecreationalActivities is up-and-running
and intramurals sports have
started their season. If you would like to
get involved with an intramural you can
go to the Recreational Office, Room 222
in the SUB or call 657-2281.
• RHA are going to the Corn Maize
on October 21 at 7 pm. They are also
holding a Murder Mystery throughout Oc-tober
22 to October 30. On October 29,
RHA will have the Halloween Carnival at
7 pm and the Halloween Dance/Bizarre
Magician on October 31 from 9 pm to 1
pm.
• Remember to get your teams
together for the upcoming College Bowl.
The event is scheduled for November 13
and 14. If there are any questions, con-tact
the Student Union Activities Office in
the SUB.
Here is this edition's installment
of ongoing activities through Montana
State University - Billings Organiza-tions.
Now go out there and get in-volved
in your campus life.
• The Sexual Assault Services
Outreach Office started new hours
this year. They are Mondays and
Tuesdays from 2 pm to 4 pm and Fri-days
from 11 am to 4 pm. They are
located in the Wellness Clinic across
from Petro Hall.
• On November 21 the De-partment
of Music will hold the MSU
Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 pm in the Cisel
Recital Hall. The cost is $4 for adults
and $2 for students and seniors
(MSU-B students, staff, and faculty
free with current 1.D.). Then at 7:30
pm on November 25 the MSU-B
Symphonic Band will perform in the
Cisel Recital Hall. Prices stay as pre-viously
stated.
• "That Thursday Food Faith
Thing" is every Thursday from 5 pm
to 6:45 pm at First English Lutheran
Church, sponsored by United Cam-pus
Ministry. Join them for a home-cooked
meal, some conversation,
and fun and informational worship.
Also, each Wednesday at Noon in
the SUB Atrium they hold a Pizza
Bible Study. The United Campus Min-istry
is trying to start the Habitat for
Humanity Chapter again; if you are
interested you can call Kim at 657-
2165.
• Keep in mind on December
1, the Catholic Campus Ministry is
planning World Aids Day. There will
be more information and planned
events closer to the date.
• The Associated Students of
Montana State University — Billings
(ASMSUB) is in session and meets
every Tuesday at 5 pm; everyone is
welcome to attend. If there are any
concerns or comments take them to
one of your Student Senators. They
Only in post-secondary
•ducation is it possible to at-end
school with your parent or
hild. Now, with the range of
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t the COT and will graduate
in December. while her daugh-ter
April began the two-year
drafting program just this fall.
April and her mother have al-ways
had closely-knit lives:
shopping, lunching. fishing,
and camping together for as
long as either can remember.
Aaron said, "We just do every-thing
together." And, once they
graduate from their respective
ograms at the COT. they plan
keep on doing everything to-ther
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homework assignments. It'
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"[They] can compare notes.'
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are not the only parent and chit
pair to study together at on
school. But their good and ba
reactions to the experienc
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relatives gain wisdom to
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of families attending college together
Adam Wickens
(Junior, Sociology)
"Well, because I figured it was a school full
of slackers and the collective stupidity of
the group would make me appear smarter."
Vansetten
(Sophomore, Public Relations)
"Small, far away from HOME!!!"
Taken on : October 3, 2002
CORRECTION
In the last issue's photo poll Wenhua Cao's re-sponse
should have said: "There is not many in-dustry
and not many colleges in Montana. Tons of
people in China."
The Retort would like to appologize for the error.
OCTOBER 21, 2002
ASMSUB President
Hello again from Student Gov-ernment
Senate is on a role this year
th enhancina your student experi-ce.
We have gotten together a float
the Holiday Parade. Christina
rague, working with University Re-ions,
has just been informed that
SU's float was named as the Pa-rade
Grand Marshal. This means
that all you students will be repre-sented
by our float... so you might
want to participate in the decorating!
Hopefully all of you will be
watching for the candidates that we
are sponsoring to inform you of their
positions on different election issues
in the upcoming weeks. Also. Dr.
exton will be hosting an informa-tional
forum on the Nov. 17in to in-cease
your knowledge about the
mpus, Let Matt Guerttman or
hitney Ewing know if you have any
rticular items you would like to dis-cuss.
The COT Senator, Alexis
Urbaniak, is working with other COT
and community college student rep-
Shout- u
resentatives so as to create a bette
working system for the COT student
population, She is looking for corn
ments and/or questions about o
current methods.
The NEW Game Room shout
be moved to the Beartooth by Janu
ary at the latest. It will have mor
billiards tables. foosball, table tenni
air hockey, and a plethora of ex
tremely entertaining video games.
you have a favorite, please conta
Jake Lucas in the Senate Office.
The Financial Board ha
passed bills to sponsor clubs su
as the Percussion Club and Res
Bence Hall Association to attend co
ferences around the nation. They ‘Ni
be bringing back leadership skills a
information for the students affect
by their respective groups. Any que
tions about these bills can be direct
to Ray Champ, the ASMSU-B Bu
ness Manager.
Senate meetings are eve
Tuesday at 5:00pm in the Beartoo
Lounge (until next semester) an
everyone is welcome. The Sena
office is in Room 213 of the SUB an
the phone number is 657-2365.
CAMPUS LIFE
Photo Poll: Why did you choose this school?
By MiSuk Kim
Jen Arko
0 (Senior, Environmental Studies)
"I like the idea of a small school in a
bigger city."
Steven Peterman
(Junior, Elementary Education)
"This is a great school for Education
majors.
Jodi Kimmerle
(senior, Accounting)
"I wanted to go to small University. Also I
like the town of Billings!" Dream Big: Helping Students Discover
and Achieve Their Dreams
Shaunna Pierce
Copy Editor
In the first of a seven part Se-ries,
motivational speaker Gary
Tuerack presented an outstanding
lecture. The small but enthusiastic
group of student attendees received
words of advice and encouragement.
With the help of several visualization
exercises, the audience learned that
taking chances is what leads to suc-cess.
The highly energetic Tuerack,
in an upbeat, engaging style,
dropped pearls of wisdom quicker
than most people can talk. Each idea
dovetailed into the next, making a
concrete whole; a way to have a life
worth living.
Tuerack gave step-by-step in-structions
for attaining goals. Get
started! Every moment is
The Moment of Truth. Develop
courage by doing courageous things.
Do what you would do if you knew
you wouldn't fail. In dynamic fashion,
he outlined the traits of successful
people. Then he gave us the tools
to attain those traits. You just have
to be brave enough to take the tool.
The only difference between a Goal
and a Dream is that a goal had a
deadline.
Tuerack is an internationally
known motivational speaker and au-thor.
He was voted one of the out-standing
speakers of the 20th cen-tury
by the International Biographi-cal
Center in Cambridge, England,
he is a past APCA Speaker of the
Year, and has been nominated for
NACA Speaker of the Year. He is
currently President of The Society
of Success and Leadership (see
sidebar). His publications include
"Better Grades in Less Time" and
"Discovering the Secrets of the
World's Most Successful People."
The seven part lecture series,
which begins with Tuerack, is spon-sored
by Student Union Activities
Council with student fees allocated
by ASMSU-B. This means that the
lecture has been paid for by your
tuition and is now free for you to at-tend.
Take advantage of your
money and come to the next lecture,
which will be October 29 and will
feature John Tuitel's acclaimed pro-gram
"Dancing in the End Zone."
Wendy Haker
(Graduate school, Student Affairs)
- Basically, Education program! ! Small
environment, opportunity to interact with
faculty and staff."
OCTOBER 21, 2002 [ VOICE 1---0
Potential Strike Affects Education Majors - Editorial
Larissa Leonard
Staff Editorial
Education majors are torn about
their feelings regarding a potential
strike by teachers within School Dis-trict
2.
The professors in the Education
Department have advised the students
to take action only if the strike actually
occurs. These actions might include
agreeing with the teachers in the strike
or staying in school and not substitut-ing
for the striking teachers. However,
education professors at MSU-B are
concerned that students who might be
substitute teaching will miss opportu-nities
in the classroom to learn about
the profession they have chosen. This
is a very delicate situation and affects
many students on campus because
of the high number of Education ma-jors
and other students who also have
children in School District 2. Most feel
a passion to support the teachers' view.
As an education major, I also support
their views.
I am not only an education ma-jor
who some day hopes to be a
teacher; my dad is a teacher in
Glasgow, MT, where I grew up. I was
only 9 years old but I can remember
vividly when my dad and his fellow
teachers went on strike that summer
within my school district. Luckily that
strike ended right after the new school
year began; however, the stress and
hardships my family went through dur-ing
that summer are something I will
never forget. Because they went on
strike to protest the insurance prices,
the teachers were dropped from their
health insurance coverage. Once the
strike was settled a new health insur-ance
carrier had to be found. Even
though I was a little girl I recall the anxi-ety
my family experienced.
Rumors are flying about teach-ing
placements being changed, but no
one will know until the teachers from
School District 2 decide to strike or not.
Students have heard they might be
moved out of their teaching placements
if they are in School District 2, into non-
School District 2 areas like Laurel, Hunt-ley
Project, private schools or other
schools. The professors are doing their
best to watch the news to give the stu-dents
the best advice about what to do
in this situation. Student teachers in
Billings were told they might have to
stay in the teaching program an extra
month, but the decision was made that
they should not be punished for what
is beyond their control.
We need to remember that the
people teaching in the state of Mon-tana
are here for the kids. However,
the pay is one of the lowest in the na-tion,
ranking at 47. Student teachers
are in a tough spot because they may
be called on to teach in the Spring or
the Fall and if they side with the teach-ers
now, School District 2 may decide
not to hire them later. If the student
teachers side with School District 2, the
teachers may look down on them and
the students lose the friendship of the
people they work with. The strike has
been a real eye opener for some stu-dent
teachers because if makes them
realize they might have to move in or-der
to do what they love to do. If that
happens the school district loses; the
state of Montana loses, too.
The issue between the school dis-trict
and the teachers boils down to in-creased
health insurance costs being
absorbed by the teachers who already
earn low salaries. The message seems
to be that it is best for a teacher to be
single and without any family (depen-dents)
in order to afford to work here.
This is not a good situation.
Because of the low pay teachers
earn in Montana, new teachers are leav-ing
the state in order to find better pay-ing
jobs. This is a shame. Young teach-ers
offer a refreshing perspective and
new ideas for students. On the other
hand I have had, teachers who have
taught 30 years and I would not trade
the experience they have brought to the
classroom for anything, It seems to
me a combination of experienced
teachers and new teachers would be
ideal. How can we retain them if we
keep chipping away at their salaries?
I hope this matter is resolved in a
way in which the teachers' needs are
met and they don't have to go on strike.
Students want to help substitute but they worry if
they don't respect the picket line it will jeopardize
their chances for teaching positions in the future.
Name Brand Weather - Editorial
Richard Castillo
Staff Editorial
How would you feel if one day
you start to get really sick, you enter
a doctor's office, and when he's
through with his tests he comes to
you and tells you that you have any-where
from one hour to 10 years to
live? Or would you be uneasy if the
gas gauge in your car read "some-what
full but not quite empty?"
Weather forecasting in Billings
can give you that same effect. It
seems that on any given day fore-casts
from T.V. to newspaper can
cover a whole spectrum of options.
One station may give a forecast, tell-ing
the public we will have 74 de-grees
as a high with clear skies,
while a station just down the num-bers
gives you 64 and cloudy, It
makes you wonder if they call each
other in the morning to divvy out fore-casts
so that inevitably one of them
will end up correct that day.
I have recently moved here
from the South, tornado alley to be
exact. Now given, there is some
variation in the forecasts, but they
usually range in the two and three
degrees not the 1 Os and 20s. When
there is a storm coming, most likely
they will tell you where it's going to
hit and when, within a couple of min-utes.
If you see a storm warning for
your area, sure enough, when you
look outside there are ugly clouds in
the sky and your hair begins to stand
up because of the lightning static.
Sadly, I've experienced the ex-act
opposite in the beautiful town of
Billings, from weather forecasts for
the present day that can change from
one 15-minute weathercast to the
next, to public emergency warnings
for a severe thunderstorm in Billings
while the skies were clear and quite
pleasant.
I've heard people give the ex-cuse,
"In Montana, if you don't like
the weather, just wait a minute and it
will change." I'm sorry to say it, but
that is also a saying in the South. In
many ways the predictability is quite
similar, which begs the question,
"Why can't the great and educated
weatherman give me something I
couldn't possibly guess just as well?"
I had to find out the answer to
that question so I decided to talk to
those who would know most. I got
an interview with Bob McGuire, chief
forecaster for KTVQ 2, Cat Country
KBUL, and The Billings Gazette. I
also spoke with Ed McIntosh a
weather forecaster at KULR 8,
KGHL FM98.5, and Hot 101.9; he
also does a radio show on 107.5.
The River.Truthfully, I lost a lot of my
pessimism when I actually got a
chance to see what goes on with the
weather forecasting world of Billings.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm still
critical, but maybe softened up a bit.
First of all, if you can't stand
the weather or the forecasts, you'll
probably always get along with the
men who give the forecast. I've got
to say that these guys were as nice
as they come and tried to help and
explain as much as possible. Bob
McGuire has about 30 years expe-rience
in broadcasting and moved
his way up through the ranks to be-come
who he is today. He admits
openly that he does not have a me-teorologist
degree, and says that a
degree is as "good as gold." He's
had to learn everything on his own
and is tested yearly to earn a seal
from the National Weather Associa-tion.
He graduated with a business
degree, but worked his way through
college in broadcasting and it stuck.
Bob once worked out of Lawton, OK
when their radar was state of the art
and came out of a B29 Bomber. Bob
showed me the Weather Center at
Q2 and gave me a great overview
of how they produce their forecasts.
The Q2 weather team relies on
the Associated Press and the Na-tional
Weather Service for their na-tional
and local weather maps and
information. Bob said that he be-lieves
the forecasts are a 70/30 com-puter
to human ratio. He has to take
advice from his weather resources
and then make his own judgments
on which of the conflicting weather
maps he wants to believe. Bob has
to rely heavily on his extensive ex-perience
to make each broadcast as
accurate as possible, but he said he
takes it personally when he gets it
wrong and will show the public his
forecast for the last day even when
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Name Brand
Weather Cont.
his forecast went haywire.
Ed McIntosh is very similar
to Bob McGuire in that he doesn't
carry a degree, but relies on ex-tensive
experience and knowl-edge
of a land that he has lived
in his entire life. He graduated
with a degree in Broadcasting and
then later became a weatherman.
Ed is a "Montana boy" and finds
that Billings has its advantages
over other areas in the country
because he's lived here much of
his life. He can look
back and remember
hard winters and sees
the difference in
weather in the recent
years. Although Ed and
Bob's equipment are
very similar, they come
out very close in their
forecasts on a regular
basis. Ed relies more on
the NWS than Bob, but that may
have something do with the NWS
being less than two blocks down
the road.
Shawn Stevens is a rela-tively
new face in Billings. His
presence as chief meteorologist
at ABC6 and FOX4 gives the
newly formed news station a great
personality and knowledge when
it comes to the weather, and an
educated look at the weather in a
city where he is the only T.V.
broadcasting Meteorologist. His
equipment is all brand new and
his outlook is fresh. Coming
straight from San Francisco
where he was a producer for the
weather broadcasts, he finds Bill-ings
weather to be much differ-ent
but not exactly negative. He
seems to have a very math driven
thought process. Where I would
fall on my face after my brain ex-ploded
from all the equations,
Shawn could probably continue
forever. He showed me how
weather forecasting is really all
about the math and the precision
with which the computers can cal-culate
the information being fed
to them through sensors and
measurements. Shawn was a key
person in putting more precision
into the weather forecasting on
the West Coast through his math
calculations. Shawn and the net-work
give a 6-degree guarantee
to their weather. From many other
perspectives this is a very dan-gerous
gamble in the world of
weather. The extremes are any-where
from weathermen being
hanged by the very people who
they forecast to, to libel suits
against stations for deaths due to
inaccurate forecasting. There are
those days, though, that the guar-antees
don't stand up and Shawn
has to apologize for the mistake.
He seems to have no problem
with admitting his mistakes, but
admits if he wakes up in the
morning and sees he was drasti-cally
wrong, the prospect of go-ing
out in public is something he
may think about twice.
I learned a lot about weather
in Billings from these knowledge-able
men. Much of what I learned
satisfied my curiosity, like the fact
that no one except the airport has
a Doppler radar. This fact can be
both relaxing and ominous. Ac-cording
to Ed, a tornado only hits
the county every three years.
Since each of the networks in
town use the airport's information
you know that you won't get con-flicting
information. There is one
glaring problem with this whole
picture. Ed, Bob and Shawn don't
actu-ally
get
the in-forma-tion
di-rectly
from
the air-port.
Actu-ally
the airport sends the info to
the NWS who then sends it to
Washington D.C., where another
computer sends the info to a little
town north of Boston,
Massachusettes. From there it is
fed into their respective satellites
where they can interpret and then
broadcast the information. In-credibly
from the moment a tor-nado,
that triennial occurrence in
Yellowstone County, hits the
ground it takes five to ten min-utes
before anyone in the county
has an idea of what is going on.
Of course that poor unlucky fam-ily
who is still sitting on their
couch, in their house with no roof,
and their dog in the nearby tree;
have a clear understanding of
what just happened when Bob
and Ed broadcast the information.
In the local network's defense, a
Doppler radar can cost millions of
dollars.
In many ways these guys
seem like they have it all together,
but as some Billings residents can
testify, they sometimes miss the
mark by many degrees. My sym-pathy
for the weather forecasters
in this beautiful city has increased
tenfold. Apparently they
deal with all kinds of vari-ables
in this strange
shaped country. They
have to deal with every-thing
from rain clouds that
drop water but then
evaporate it back up be-fore
it ever hits the ground
to those "goofy wind cur-rents"
as Bob McGuire put
it.
I'm not asking for such pre-cision
that they can tell me the
amount of water in each rain drop
or the exact number of snow-flakes
that will hit the ground in a
given day, only that the weather
forecasts I receive don't sound
like they came from a dartboard
with degrees and conditions
pasted on it. I'm not just talking
about the T.V. stations now, I'm
talking about the weather chan-nel,
that little weather button I hit
on my AT&T digital cable, and ev-e
r y
other
water
me-dia
that I
go to,
t o
find
o u t
whether I need a sweater or a
swimsuit. The other night my digi-tal
cable gave me a forecast for
clear skies and fair temperatures,
then as I paged down they then
explained to me that there was a
chance for sleet and snow the
same day. Well, of course, there's
a chance for sleet and snow,
there's also a chance that Carrot
Top will be funny again, but none
of us will say it, because the
chances are so slight its ludicrous
to mention.
The difference between 35
degrees and 25 degrees means
a lot if you are H2O; the same
goes for everyone who has to
spend any time outside. The
weather plays a huge part in
many people's lives, from el-ementary
teachers to city work-ers.
If you don't know what is
coming it can be hard to plan your
day. If the forecaster says it's go-ing
to rain, you want to plan in-side
activities for your kids, or
plan to wear proper equipment to
work. If you are a contractor who
can only work on days when it
isn't raining, you'd like the fore-casts
to be accurate so you can
plan ahead which days you won't
be working. The accuracy of the
weather forecasts one way or an-other
can cost a lot of time and
money if not correct. These days
both time and money seem in
short supply.
It seems I sit in a dilemma.
Do I continue to gripe and moan
about the drops of rain hitting my
glasses and smearing my vision
as I walk across campus, when I
was told it would be bright and
shiny? Or do I give props to the
men who don't want to go to work
in the morning knowing that
they've called the weather just a
tad wrong? Can I honestly live
my life, knowing that my fingers
feel like they fell off and my ears
long ago abandoned my body for
exposing them to such harsh cli-mates
when I was told it would
be in the 70s? Or do I blame my-self
for trusting in a system that
by definition is just a simple edu-cated
guess? In all honesty this
will always be the reality, and no
matter how much any of us moan
and groan we will end up wet
when we want to be dry and cold
when we expected warm. I also
have to admit that this isn't an ev-ery
day occurrence and despite
the weather, I live a good life.
Thank goodness I even have
someone who is constantly look-ing
after my environmental well
being, unlike maybe the Donner
family who had to eat each other
because they got stuck some-where
in the middle of winter. Ok,
I am a being a tad dramatic, but
after all is said and done I want
to say thanks to the guys who try
everyday to get it right consis-tently,
and beat themselves over
the heads if they don't. At least
now I understand why I can't al-ways
have it my way.
They have to deal with everything
from rain clouds that drop water but
then evaporate it back up before it
ever hits the ground to those "goofy
wind currents" as Bob McGuire put
it.
The accuracy of the weather forecasts
one way or another can cost a lot of
time and money if not correct. These
days both time and money seem in
short supply.
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Moving Out with the Queen of the Road - Editorial
OCTOBER 21, 2002
After moving residences
about seven times in a two-year
period, I feel I should
share some of the wisdom I
have absorbed with my fellow
college students and young
adults, out on their own for the
first time in an unforgiving
world. For those freshmen
students who can't seem to
stop getting busted drinking
Boones in their dorm rooms,
and for the older students who
finally want to leave mother
and get their own place, here
are some insights on off-cam-pus
living.
My first adventure began
when I endeavored to leave
the dorms in the summer of
2001. I had lived on the fifth
floor of Petro for four semes-ters,
and loved it. Yet I knew
there was more to life than
sharing a bathroom with 20
other girls. It was time to
move on. Little did I know that
real life was suddenly about to
begin for me.
I moved into a house al-ready
occupied by seven of my
best friends. We shared a
single bathroom upstairs; ev-eryone
had his or her own area
to live in. My area was the
laundry room. It was wet, dirty,
and closetless. I invested $26
in a metal tube wardrobe.
Putting it together in-volved
a lot of cussing, throw-ing
of tubing, and eventually
enormous amounts of duct
tape holding the rickety pipes
together. For weeks after that,
I would come home to a huge pile
of my clothes on the filthy floor.
Finally I just got used to the fact.
I also got used to people
coming into my "bedroom" (a
mattress on half of the basement
floor) at all hours of the night.
Picture this: it's 4 am and I have
to work at 8 am...
"Hey Amy! Whatcha doin?"
they'd lean in with drunken
breath, and I'd roll my eyes and
summon up my meanest growl,
"Trying to sleep!" Over the last
three years I've been in college,
I have somehow gained a repu-tation.
People are sort of scared
to wake me up because of my
foul temper. Usually I am pretty
nice, but when I only have an
hour or two to sleep, and you
screw with it, watch out! I don't
like to waste my sleeping time
being nice to people.
Living at 2401 Miles that
summer was one experience af-ter
another. I realized that food
is not something one can take for
granted. I survived on wild game
my dad would send from
Lewistown. I learned how to
make a pretty damn good steak-using
whatever was in the fridge
at the time, including sour
cream, beer, or mysterious look-ing
leftovers that were left un-claimed.
Cooking is a creative
business that requires some kind
of intuition about what kind of
foods taste good with ketchup.
Ramen noodles hold infinite pos-sibilities.
I learned not all roommates
are destined to be best friends
forever. When I moved in; one
guy was very bitter. Previously
he had the basement all to him-self;
now he had to share. He
never missed a chance to re-mind
me how unwelcome I was
there. But I tried to be sweet
as sugar, and I actually liked it
because my being nice worked
quite well to piss him off..
Another thing you may no-tice
when living with multiple
roommates is that no matter
when you decide to do laundry,
at any hour of the day there are
inevitably mildewing clothes in
the washer and crinkled laundry
that has been in the dryer for
days. Usually, I break down and
do the straggler's laundry for
them, meanwhile venting and
muttering things like,
"Motherfrickin' mothertrucker,
can't do your own motherfrickin'
laundry...," well, you get the pic-ture!
I can never believe how
many articles of clothing can be
shoved in one of those ma-chines
at once. Try to encour-age
people to do the laundry in
the timeliest fashion possible.
If that doesn't work for ya,
throwing their clean or wet
clothes in piles by the kitty lit-ter
box usually does.
Towards the end of the
summer, two girls I had lived
with in the dorms tracked me
down; they wanted me to find a
house and live with them in the
fall. After four months with
seven very melodramatic room-mates,
a bedroom with a door
sounded like heaven. Little did
I know what adventures were in
store for me at the Broadwater
House. But that's a story for an-other
time.
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[ VOICE 1-0 OCTOBER 21, 2002
A Smoker's Lament: It Can Kill You
Michelle VanLandin • ham
Staff Editorial
A week ago my uncle passed
away. He was 58 years old. There
was no prior history of health prob-lems
but the cause of death was a
massive coronary. For someone
who didn't have high blood pres-sure
or serious cholesterol issues,
the question of "why?" was spout-ing
from my family's lips. The an-swer,
however, was quickly found.
Yes, my uncle exercised regularly,
taking walks and such, which isn't
that bad for someone of his age.
He had a lot of stress, which s l'm
sure was a major contribution to his
death, as well as an alcohol prob-lem,
and he was a smoker. Actu-ally,
calling him a chimney might be
a bit more accurate. He smoked
three packs a day.
I, like many other members of
my family, am a smoker. I picked
up the habit in high school for rea-sons
that now escape me. I cur-rently
smoke around a pack a day
and while living in the dorms makes
it possible for me to cut down, my
busy schedule doesn't allow me
that much time. I work at a bar, so
I smoke there. I smoke while driv-ing.
I smoke before and after
meals. I smoke when I go out. I
smoke in between classes. Hell, I
smoke after I leave the gym! I ad-mit
that thanks to my four dollars a
day, the smoking industry is living
comfortably.
I began my education at MSU-Billings
in January of this year. Dur-ing
my walks across the campus,
cigarette in hand, I couldn't help but
notice the many non-smokers who
looked at me with their faces con-torted
in disgust and contempt. Af-ter
living in Los Angeles, where
smoking is banned from nearly ev-erywhere,
I felt it easy to ignore
these little annoyances. It was the
signs, however, that began to irri-tate
me. You've all seen them. The
posters of fellow students lounging
on the grass with a caption "65%
of MSU-Billings Students are To-bacco
Free," and the pamphlets
from the Student Health Center of-fering
a free package to those who
are serious about giving up the
habit. It's difficult to escape them.
I know it's unhealthy. I am
well aware of how gross it is. Be-lieve
it or not, I hate this habit, and
I wish I had never started it. I ad-mit,
the first cigarette in the morn-ing
is very wonderful, but after
that, it's all down hill. So, after at-tending
my uncle's funeral, I made
a command decision: I was go-ing
to quit smoking.
My first day was difficult. I
began it well, mostly due to my
lack of cigarettes on hand. I didn't
think it would be too hard. I had
class to busy myself with, and im-mediately
afterwards, I would
have to be on my way to work. I
could do this. I had gum stashed
at work, and as long as I could
make it past that, I'd be home free.
I walked to campus, eager to see
fellow non-smokers and for the
first time really being able to join
in on their fun of making the un-healthy
feel really guilty about pol-luting
our air. I found no one. No,
that isn't entirely true. I found
smokers. Nothing but smokers.
Smokers walking, smokers stand-ing
outside of the buildings, smok-ers
in the parking lot, smokers
lounging the same grassy knoll
used for the non-smoking cam-paign!
I desperately searched for
the pamphlets that had plagued
me for so long, but there were
none to be found.
I'll be the first to admit it. I
caved. There is a little known fact
about the community of smokers.
We all know what it's like to be
without, so if someone comes up
to you with that wild-eyed, desper-ate
need for the nicotine under your
fingernails look, and asks politely for
a cigarette, most likely they will get
one. We're the last of a dying breed
(literally) and we have created a
bond. Bumming a cigarette can spark
up a conversation and a new friend
can be found. So, fully aware that I
could get one, I walked up to a nice
looking gentleman and begged for
cancer. I still feel guilty about it. I
smoked. But it was an American
Spirit, so it wasn't like I enjoyed it. I
resolved to do better for the rest of
the day.
Unfortunately, I caved again.
Someone had a new pack of
Marlboros, which are my brand as
well and I swear I wanted to jump the
guy for them. He was kind and gave
me one. Okay, bad Michelle! Bad! I
knew I wouldn't mess up again... until
I got to work.
So my first day was a
complete loss and I ended up
smoking just as much, if not
more, than I normally smoke.
I'm still trying and I'm planning
on going to the Health Center
for one of the packages. I'm
tired of my clothes, my car, and
pretty much everything I own
smelling like an ashtray. I want
to walk into a restaurant and
proudly tell the waitress, "Non-smoking,
please." I may have
to view the campus as a
minefield and attempt to cross
it without any more casualties
but whatever it will take, I will
succeed. Hopefully before the
winter comes, because I'd
rather be one of the people in-side
the building, warm and
dry, than one of the group hud-dling
together outside under
the cloud of smoke.
Retched Child
Hey there little ugly girl. Why don't you come over here
and I'll claw up your face and rip out your hair?
404-01011.0611.1*Witmoi
Go ahead... cry. No one cares. Crawl back into that hole
that back corner of your mind that no one knows about.
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Isn't that where you break your mirrors slice up
your wrists? Dying can be a blessing, especially when
you've done it so often.
The blood is running out in these colors. You paint your
facQi[iwcrimson, cheek flush
Open your eyes with your beautiful mask placed so
exquisitely.
Hey there pretty girl. Do you want.to play?
-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION-
[ Creativity ]---cs OCTOBER 21, 2002
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
Taken from an email forward.
1. Save the whales. Collect the
whole set.
2. A day without sunshine is
like, night.
3. On the other hand, you have
different fingers.
4. I just got lost in thought. It
was unfamiliar territory.
5. 42.7 percent of all statistics
are made up on the spot.
6. 99 percent of lawyers give
the rest a bad name.
7. I feel like I'm diagonally
parked in a parallel universe.
8. You have the right to remain
silent. Anything you say will be mis-quoted,
then used against you.
9. I wonder how much deeper
the ocean would be without sponges.
10. Honk if you love peace and
quiet.
11. Remember half the people
you know are below average.
12. Despite the cost of living,
have you noticed how popular it re-mains?
13. Nothing is fool-proof to a
talented fool.
14. Atheism is a non-prophet
organization.
15. He who laughs last thinks
slowest.
16. Depression is merely an-ger
without enthusiasm.
17. Eagles may soar, but wea-sels
don't get sucked into jet en-gines.
18. The early bird may get the
worm, but the second mouse gets
the cheese.
19. I drive way too fast to worry
about cholesterol.
20. I intend to live forever - so
far so good.
21. Borrow money from a pes-simist
- they don't expect it back.
22. If Barbie is so popular, why
do you have to buy her friends?
23. My mind is like a steel trap
- rusty and illegal in 37 states.
24. Quantum mechanics: The
dreams stuff is made of._
25. The only substitute for good
manners is fast reflexes.
26. Support bacteria - they're
the only culture some people have.
27. When everything's coming
your way, you're in the wrong lane
and going the wrong way.
28. If at first you don't succeed,
destroy all evidence that you tried.
29. A conclusion is the place
where you got tired of thinking.
30. Experience is something
you don't get until just after you need
it.
31. For every action there is
an equal and opposite criticism.
32. Bills travel through the mail
at twice the speed of checks
33. Never do card tricks for the
group you play poker with.
34. No one is listening until you
make a mistake.
35. Success always occurs in
private and failure in full view.
36. The colder the x-ray table
the more of your body is required
on it.
37. The hardness of butter is
directly proportional to the softness
of the bread.
38. The severity of the itch is
inversely proportional to the ability
to reach it.
39. To steal ideas from one
person is plagiarism; to steal from
many is research.
40. To succeed in politics, it is
often necessary to rise above your
principles.
41. Monday is an awful way to
spend 1/7th of your life.
42. You never really learn to
swear until you learn to drive.
43. Two wrongs are only the
beginning.
44. The problem with the gene
pool is that there is no lifeguard.
45. The sooner you fall behind
the more time you'll have to catch
up.
46. A clear conscience is usu-ally
the sign of a bad memory.
47. Change is inevitable ex-cept
from vending machines.
48. Get a new car for your
spouse - it'll be a great trade!
49. Plan to be spontaneous -
tomorrow.
50. Always try to be modest
and be proud of it!
51. If you think nobody cares,
try missing a couple of payments.
52. How many of you believe
in telekinesis? Raise my hand...
53. Love may be blind but mar-riage
is a real eye-opener.
54. If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
Call For Submissions
Poetry
Creative Essays
Short Stories
Art
Photos
To have your work considered for publication in your
campus newspaper,
The Retort
• Drop it off @ room 225 in the Student
Union Building, attn: Deanna
• Email it to: deannautroske@yahoo.com
Be sure to include your name, phone number, and email
address with your submission.
An Artists Notebook: Just Killing Time
by: Justin Zappe
Justin is first semseter at the COT
getting his degree in automotive
technology.
These graphics were doodled in
a class, and were origially in-tended
for a story that was to be
published. Instead he ended up
just kiling time.
Did You Ever Wonder? Here's the Answers!
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Mirage
I am reading near the
window.
From a corner of my
eye, I see
the most beautiful bird
dancing with a warm
breeze:
A bird never seen be-fore
with feathers of yellow
and blue
radiant in the sun.
I look up from my book
quickly
so as
to catch a good look
before my movement
startles the bird away.
It didn't fly!
I see that it can't
let go of the stem it
holds on the lilac bush.
Its colors,
now in my direct sight,
blend to
green.
Without feathers or
wings
that leaf just keeps
twirling and flapping.
As long as I watch
it never
flies.
By Deanna Utroske
[Creativity]-0 OCTOBER 21, 2002
Why do clocks run clockwise?
Before the advent of clocks, we used
sundials. In the northern hemisphere,
the shadows rotated in the direction we
now call "clockwise." The clock hands
were built to mimic the natural move-ments
of the sun. If clocks had been
invented in the southern hemisphere
"clockwise" would have been in the op-posite
direction.
What does "M&M" stand for?
Two names — Mars and Murrie,
the head honchos at M&M Candies
in the early 1940's.
How do horses sleep standing
up?
Horses have a unique system
of interlocking ligaments and bones
in their legs, which serves as a sling
to suspend their body weight without
strain while their muscles are com-pletely
relaxed. Thus, horses don't
have to exert any energy counciously
to remain standing -- their legs are
locked in the proper position during
sleep.
And finally....
Why is yawning contagious?
The most asked Imponderable,
and we have no good answer, and only
a few lame theories. Who studies yawn-ing?
Taken from Why Do Clocks Run
Clockwise and other Imponderables by
David Feldman.
[ A&E OCTOBER 21, 2002
The Silence of the Lambs Trilogy Ends Where It Begins
She Said
Jamie Porter
Staff Writer
Moves at an
unstoppable pace
If you are someone with a
twisted curiosity for psychologi-cal
thrillers, then - Red Dragon"
is the perfect movie with a pace
that is rarely matched.
As the story begins. the
audience is introduced to ex-
FBI agent Will Graham. the
man responsible for catching
Dr. Lecter. nearly losing his life
in the process. Graham (Ed-ward
Norton) retired shortly af-ter
the arrest and now. years
later. is asked to come out of
retirement to aid the Bureau in
capturing a new serial killer.
Graham reluctantly agrees but
realizes that he must enlist the
help of the frightening Dr.
Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in
order to get inside the killer's
Creepy Success
This movie is taken from
Thomas Harris' first novel in the
trilogy, "Red Dragon."
"Red Dragon" is a thriller
which pre-dates both
"Hannibal" and "Silence of the
Lambs." It begins with Hannibal
Lecter, our hero villain, free and
serving at an ironic dinner for
his high-class friends and col-leagues.
You then learn how
Lecter came to live in a small
cell with a glass wall. "The Red
Dragon" refers to the Red
Dragon biblical book of Revela-tions
portraying the devil as a
great Red Dragon. Through a
tortured childhood a man
named Francis Dolarhyde,
played by Ralph Fiennes, has
become delusional and schizo-phrenic.
You almost feel a pity
for this man who takes much
pleasure, it seems, in butcher-ing
his fellow humans. He has
gained a great admiration of
and psychotic attraction to Dr.
Lecter and begins to corre-spond
with the cannibalistic
doctor.
Edward Norton plays FBI
agent Will Graham who has a
special ability to put himself in
the shoes of psychotics and
with this ski:I solve each mur-der.
Lecter has a special rela-tionship
with Graham because
it was Graham who ultimately
put him away. It, a twisted rela-mind.
As the story unfolds. Gra-ham
is forced to face the fears
of his past and the dark depths
of his own identity.
There are many reasons
why "Red Dragon" is so capti-vating.
One aspect would be the
way the director. Brett Ratner,
manipulates each scene in or-der
to show the audience the
many dimensions of each char-acter.
The viewer finds sympa-thetic
feelings toward virtually
everyone in the film. not an
easy task
when dealing
with the sub-ject
of serial
killing.
Another
reason that
this film
might be of
tionship,
Lecter ap-pears
to help
Graham inter-pret
the Red
Dragon murders, but at the
same time is trying to kill Gra-ham.
In this sometimes fast
paced, sometimes slow film,
you enter a world of twisted lives
and twisted fates. Reba
McClane, played by Emily
Watson, is a blind and endear-ing
woman who works in a dark-room
for the same company as
Mr. Dolarhyde. In her riveting
performance, Emily becomes
romantically attached to Francis
and begins a quite morbid court-ing
relationship. Because she is
blind, his house is quite normal
and his actions, although sus-picious,
are ignored because of
his already strange personality.
In one scene she uses his bath-room,
which sports a shattered
mirror and bloodstains she is
absolutely oblivious to. The end-ing
of this movie will take you
on a roller coaster ride of emo-tions
and leave you satisfied.
If you've had the pleasure
of watching "Silence of the
Lambs" and "Hannibal", I don't
believe you'll be disappointed
with "Red Dragon." I don't usu-ally
enjoy cheesy horror flicks
that leave me looking for the
fake blood, dummies, the hor-interest
is the fact that it is the
prequel to The Silence of the
Lambs." The audience is given
an idea of who Lecter was prior
to his incarceration and also
learns some of the details that
led to his capture.
The most obvious reason
that Red Dragon" is a must-see
movie would naturally be
the actors starring in it. The
chemistry between Hopkins and
Norton is unquestionably fault-less.
Ralph Fiennes. the actor
who plays
the serial
killer, does
an excellent
job at strik-ing
fear into
the hearts of
the audi-ence
mem-rid
acting
and predict-able
endings
that usually
come with
one of those films. Although
"Red Dragon" could be listed as
horror, it is smart and holds you
in your seat till the roller
coaster ride has finished.
Hannibal Lecter, played by
Anthony Hopkins, is
well... Hannibal. Scary, creepy,
and very convincing, Hopkins
gives a performance that up-holds
my personal legendary
opinion of him. Ralph Fiennes
gives an excellent performance
that takes you into all sorts of
emotional dimensions. You
want to sympathize with his
character as he tries to find a
way out of his madness, but
then ultimately fails. Edward
Norton gave a bland perfor-mance
with what could be
called a "stock character." It
confuses me whether he was
actually trying to be that dull or
the portrayal just ended up that
way through some very unin-spired
acting. Although he is a
main point, in the movie, even
his character's wife, played by
Mary-Louise Parker, overshad-ows
his performance. After
American X, it's hard to see
Norton any better and this
movie is no exception. Freddy
Lounds, a tabloid reporter
bers.
I give this movie five out of
five stars. The elements of "Red
Dragon" come together to form
a complete masterpiece filled
with a variety of mental twists.
If you are up for a thrill. then
strap in to this psychological
roller coaster ride and hang on.
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Hoffman, adds great spice to th
movie in a scene that puts hi
square in the crosshairs of th
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give you goose bumps or at leas
make you never want to put you
arms on armrests again. Emil
Watson's blind performance wil
make your heart ache, and prob
ably leave you with a few gra
hairs. I believe she should tak
home an Oscar for her perfor
mance. Bret Ratner's directin
is riveting and gives a true feel
ing of suspense.
This movie is rated R fo
violence, grisly images, Ian
guage, some nudity and sexual
ity.
I give this movie 5 out of
stars, and recommend it t
those who don't have a wea
stomach. Although it is a preque
and you may 1.1ve some feeling
of deja vu, it is well worth th
price of the ticket at the theatre.
This definitely isn't the feel good
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The Young and the Hopeless
Dustin Olsen
Staff Writer
Good Charlotte has re-turned
with their second album,
The Young and the Hopeless.
The rock quintet from Washing-ton
D.C. has lived up to it's
reputation with this mature, me-lodic
CD. Any person that has
listened to Good Charlotte will
automatically notice the simi-larities
between this CD and
their debut. Both CD's have
excellent, catchy choruses in all
their songs. Although the sound
may be quite similar to their
debut CD, the band and lyrics
have obviously matured; the in-tense
songs are much more
complex. This CD required the
use six bass guitars where
there was only one guitar on the
first
The brothers Joel and Ben
Madden combine their keen
musical sense to create songs
that strike down to earth. The
first single "Lifestyles of the
Rich and the Famous," is an
excellent eye-opener that
shows the true side of the rich
and how they always seem to
look down on the less fortunate
The song, "The Story of My Old
Man" is an awesome song that
shows the true side of Ben and
Joel's father, while the song
"Boys and Girls" gives an in-sight
into exactly what girls are
thinking.
Every song on this CD is
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meaning. This CD is not
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songs "Bloody Valentine" and
"Emotionless" seem to have
reasonably slower tempos.
Most of the CD is fast-paced,
hard-hitting, and exciting right
from the beginning. It's great
to see a band's second CD live
up to their debut and this is
exactly what this one does. I
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Tool Causes Mayhem and Madness but Still Mesmeriz' es
Dustin Olsen
Staff Writer
The day finally came, Octo-ber
8th, the day I would have a
chance to see Tool! I was so anx-ious
for this concert, I was like a
13 year old girl at an N'SYNC con-cert.
I wondered how Tool would
ever capture the sound, intensity
and feeling of each of their CD's.
I sat, surrounded by a medium
size crowd of just under 5,000
people. anxious to finally have the
chance to experience Tool. The
opening band, Mashuggah, came
onto the stage at about 7:32 and
the concert finally began. I wasn't
a big fan of Mashuggah, partly be-cause
I couldn't understand one
of their angry screaming words,
also because every single song
sounded the same. I actually
thought the names of the songs
were better than their music. Af-ter
the Swedish band screamed
and thrashed for 45 minutes.
Mashuggah FINALLY left the
stage. After a long hour wait, the
lights finally dimmed and the
crowd began to harshly scream.
The two big screens, one on each
side of the stage, started show a
crazy image and the music began.
I couldn't believe how great the
sound was and how "tight" their
playing was.
Finally the lights all around us
began to flash and the huge back
drop lit up showing the shadow of
the lead singer directly in front of
it. The singer looked almost like
an alien with his tall skinny body
and bald, weird shaped head. Tool
played all of their classic songs;
"Anemia," "Lateralus" and
"Stinkfist" all within the first hour
of the concert. After finishing only
one hour of the concert, the Metra
went black. All lights were killed
and all I could hear were fans
screaming and wanting more Tool.
That is when the riot began.
I have always found it humor-ous
that the Metra Park would put
chairs on the floor for a rock con-cert,
turns out I wasn't the only
one. During the darkness I could
faintly see chairs being picked up
and moved to the front of the
stage. After many of the chairs
were lifted and thrown, people
started to pour down from the up-per
arena. Security was frantically
trying to stop the eager people, but
it was no use. After close to a
thousand people stormed onto the
floor, the Metra finally calmed
down. With close to three thou-sand
people crammed onto the
floor of the Metra, a loud shriek
was heard.
The next song was an amaz-ing
experience that lasted close to
25 minutes. When the lights lit up
again, the stage consisted of not
only one set of drums, but two.
The instrumental song began with
the lead singer, who was now in
his underwear, pouring riffs into
the head of the fans. Then the
drummers started into an intense
experience that left me in aw and
wonder. As the music began to
pick up tempo and become more
intense, the drummers were fran-tic,
but still keeping in time. After
that song I could never look at Tool
the same, their is so much more
to them than words could ever say.
Tool ended the concert with
their hit, Schism, which proved to
be their craziest. A disco ball sur-rounded
by more lights was low-ered
from the ceiling and began
to flash, mesmerizing the audi-ence.
With the intensity of the
lights and power of the music, I
was completely and totally sub-merged
in Tool. It was insane.
Tool could be labeled as one
of the craziest bands ever. They
have a very unique sound and ad-vanced
lyrics. I didn't know what
to expect when I went to this con-cert
but I did know I would never
understand it. The mysterious
band has always kept themselves
hidden and away from the media,
so it was real treat to see Tool live.
I have seen many concerts and this
concert had the best lighting period.
Tool captured the crazy sound of
their CD's and the lights definitely
helped. The huge screens gave
every fan a glimpse into the insane
minds of each of the members. It
was an honor to sit in the same
building as these phenomenal mu-sicians
and I'm sorry for any person
that missed this experience.
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[ SPORTS
Munro Becomes the Shining Light for Jacket Spikers
Jesse Kester
S • orts Editor
The MSU-Billings Lady Jack-ets'
volleyball team has seen a fair
share of downs this season. They
are standing at six and ten overall
and two and three in the very tough
PacWest conference, but out of
these ashes has arisen the future
of this Jacket team. This future is
all of 5' 8" tall and goes by the name
Olivia Munro.
Munro is having an awe-inspir-ing
season as a sophomore outside
hitter. Only this was expected after
a freshman season in which she
posted 200 kills on a team that had
three solid hitters ahead of her. She
has also been expected to become
the top offensive threat for the Jack-ets
this year.
Munro has been able to ex-ceed
any expectations placed on
her. This year she has picked up
216 kills in just 16 games, which is
83 more than the next closest
Jacket player. Munro is more than
just offensive power; she is also a
lethal server. She picked up 30 ser-vice
aces in her freshman cam-paign
and has added another 27
thus far in the season.
Munro has proved that she is
no slouch on the defensive side of
the game as well. She is third on the
team with 186 digs and has come
up with seven blocks. With Munro's
unselfish play she has also proved
to her teammates that she is com-mitted
to winning and can be a team
leader.
Munro's leadership ability has
been proven a few times this sea-son.
The best example came in a
match against Hawaii-Hilo earlier in
the season. The Jackets were down
two games to none when they rallied
behind Munro for the win. Munro
picked up 24 kills in 68 attempts while
i adding 17 digs. This op ed up the
court for three other Lady Jax, in-cluding
Kari Gerretsen't 18 kills.
Munro, a native of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, has proven that
she is a hot commo ty in the
PacWest and when er team
comes around it will b force to
be reckoned with. The are also
very high expectations •laced on
Olivia Munro but if she n use the
same will that allows h get sky-ward
as a 5'8" hitter e should
have nothing but blue -s ahead
of her.
MSU-B Yellowjackets
Play Fall Ball
Jed Barton
Staff Writer
The Yellowjacket softball
team is beginning to prepare it-self
for a tough PacWest Confer-ence
spring schedule, they will
practice and play twelve games
this fall six games during a two-day
road trip to Colorado, a
tripleheader at home against
Dawson Community College, and
a trip to Glendive for one game
against DCC, and two against
Western Nebraska rounding out
the schedule.
"The fall league is a good
opportunity to see where we are
as a team, to plug in the new play-ers
with veterans, and to give the
players an idea of what skills they
need to work on headed into the
spring season" said assistant
coach Sean McGary.
The toughest challenge the
Jackets faced so far this fall was
a doubleheader with the Division
I Colorado State Rams on Sept.
15. " The Rams play the Moun-tain
West Conference with peren ,
nial powers San Diego State and
Utah but in that first game we just
played good solid ball and beat
them" said McGary.
The pitching staff is a young,
one with four sophomores:
Stephanie Cochrun of Lake
Stevens WA, Joey Ehenes of
Great Falls, Megan McCrae of
Brandon Manitoba, and Jordan
Waverek of Kalispell, (expected to
take the hill for the Jackets this
year).
Backing them up in the field
and at the plate will be a mostly
freshman and sophomore lineup
except Junior Terilee Ehene,s who
transferred to MSU-B from Spo-kane
Community College, and the
only senior on the team Meghan
O'Donnell from Billings. "Despite
our young age, the additions we
have made have strengthened the
offence," commented McGary.
Looking ahead to the spring
calendar and PacWest Confer-ence
play, McGary is optimistic.
"Of course the Hawaii teams do
have an advantage due to climate,
namely the ability to play each
other a few times early in the new
year before we fly down. Then
when you look at a program like
North Dakota State in Fargo that
has a much worse weather prob-lem
than we do and they have
played in several NCAA tourna-ments
in recent years, you can't
count yourselves out of the run-ning."
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Cross Country
Rocky Mountain Shoot-out
(Boulder, CO)
Results: No team
scores. Top placer for the
women is Ellen Swogger (29)
and for the men Brian Fosjord
came in 72.
Golf
No Events
Soccer
Men's (4-7)
September 26 University
of Mary (Jacket Field)
Results: Win 1-0 on a
Mark Cipolla goal.
September 28 Western
Washington University
(Bellingham, WA)
Results: Lose 2-0.
September 29 Simon
Fraser University (Burnaby,
B.C.)
Results: Jackets lose 2-
7.
October 5 Seattle Univer-sity
(Seattle, WA)
Results: Jackets take a
2-0 lead at half but lose 2-5.
Women's (2-9)
September 25 Rocky
Mountain College (`Jacket Field)
Results: Lost 1-3
September 28 Seattle Uni-versity
(Seattle, WA)
Results: Lose 0-10.
September 29 Simon Fraser
University (Burnaby, B.C.)
Results: Lose 0-8.
October 5 Jamestown Col-lege
(`Jacket Field)
Results: Jackets get sec-ond
win of the year, 2-0.
Volleyball (6-10, 2-3)
September 24 Rocky Moun-tain
College (Alterowitz)
Results: Jackets get
swept in 3 games.
October 4 Western New
Mexico University (Alterowitz)
Results: Jackets win
three games to one on Olivia
Munro's 21 kills.
October 5 Western New
Mexico University (Alterowitz)
Results: Jackets lose
three games to one
Softball (4-4-1)
September 28 Blue-Gold
Scrimmage (Cenex Stadium)
Results: Blue wins 2-1.
October 5 Dawson Commu-nity
College (Cenex Stadium)
Results: Triple-Header,
all games won by the Jackets [11-
1, 15-1, 10-3]
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Jesse Kester
S•orts Editor
Has it really been that long?
Five short years Lance he gave it up.
On September 27 the greatest bas-ketball
player ever was enshrined in
the Naismith Basketball Hall of
Fame, and no it wasn't Michael Jor-dan.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson walked
up to the podium to accept this ac-complishment.
I remember as a child hating
the Lakers, but always wanting to be
number 32. He was like water on the
court, always flowing and changing
shapes. Bruce Lee once
said, "Be like wa-ter.
Water can
crash and
pound and if
you put
water in a
bottle it is a
bottle. Be
like water."
That was
Magic
Johnson. He
could run the
point and the
fast break better
than any other guard
in the league. Then the next
moment he was boxing for position
better than any other center. Magic
could play any position on the court
and play them well. In the 1980 NBA
Finals, Earvin played every position
on the court, as a rookie.
Few players are so great that
they can change the way a game is
played. Bullet Bob Hayes helped cre-ate
the zone defense in the NFL,
Gretzky changed scoring in the NHL,
and Magic, he invented basketball
as we should know it, a team game.
Magic is also credited with the inven-tion
of the "triple-double." Johnson
changed the game so much that fu-ture
and present fans wish they could
step back in time to see him play.
Whether it be to watch the behind-the-
back pass to a zooming James
Worthy, a half court buzzer beater,
or just an arena-illuminating smile,
they want to see it.
Johnson was also the inventor
of basketball fashion. Maybe the
shorts were a little tight, but there was
a fabric shortage in the '80s. In real-ity
he made basketball graceful and
we all had the purple and gold Con-verse
high tops. We started wearing
goatees and cut our hair short. That
is influence.
They say that HIV took him
away from the game too soon.
Maybe it took him too late. Magic
has done so much without basket-ball
that we might still know him to-day
even if he was not a superstar
hoopster. Since his first retire-ment,
Johnson created
the Magic
Johnson
Foundation
geared for the
younger gen-eration.
He
raises
money for
HIV and
AIDS aware-ness
and re-search.
The
Foundation
also holds events
that draw every
major celebrity from
around the world. This is
how well the man is known.
Magic has also been a great
businessman; going into ghettos
where no one else will go. He has
hired gang members to help build
and work at his "Magic Johnson The-atres"
and put 25 Starbucks in south
central L.A. along with his
"Fatburger" chain of restaurants. He
once said, "People don't stop eating,
they don't stop going to movies, and
they don't stop drinking coffee."
Do not forget that Johnson still
owns part of the Lakers. Magic is
most responsible for reining in Shag
and Kobe from their feuding. Kobe
considers him a brother and now
Magic has a ring for eight fingers.
What do you expect from the most
selfless of men.
When Johnson found out he
had HIV they all stopped and cried.
Isiah Thomas parked his car on the
side of the interstate to mourn. Pat
Riley didn't want to coach, but he did.
Bird, in typical Larry Bird fashion,
was pissed. He called and Johnson
said they could still have a few more
games. Even Jordan was stunned,
"Is he gonna die?" Some day, but
not even Magic can answer when.
He has lived with HIV since Novem-ber
17, 1991 and still no signs of the
illness have affected him.
Those days after he publicized
with the HIV infection were hard. No
one wanted to work out or play with
him. One day a fellow by the name
of Rony Seikaly was rehabbing an
injury. He asked to shoot around with
Magic and it led to one-on-one corn-petition.
They banged and bumped
and sweated on one another.
Johnson remembers that as one of
his favorite days.
Johnson's battles with Bird are
the stuff of legend. They were bitter
rival starting in their college days.
That feud bled into the NBA and
made the game what it is today. Then
one day, who knows why, they be-came
friends. To this day they remain
friends, Bird even gave the introduc-tion
to Johnson at the Hall of Fame.
No one can hate this man and his
friendship with Bird proves it.
Magic has become a living leg-end.
Kids who have never seen him
play flock to him in awe. His battles
on the court are over but his legend
still grows every day. In his induction
speech Johnson said of himself, "You
allowed me 12 or 13 years to be a
little boy, to play the game I love, to
try to be the best player I could be, to
try to win games, and to also turn the
fans on. Hopefully they had as good
a time as I had." So to the star of
"Showtime," we did. We only wish we
could give you half of what we re-ceived.
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Volume 73 - Issue 2 - October 21, 2002
Negative Campaigning, Mudslinging, Out of Hand?
There has been considerable fall
out since Republican Mike Taylor's cam-paign
ended Thursday, Oct. 10. The
Billings Gazette reported that Taylor was
on his way to Washington, D.C., for a
fund-raiser Wednesday morning when
he called Alan Mikkelsen, his campaign
manager, from the Salt Lake City air-port
to say he had decided to call it quits.
Campaign spokesman, Bowen
Greenwood, in the USA Today, "At this
point, in order to win, Mike Taylor would
have to stoop to their [Democrats] level."
Taylor, a 61-year-old state sena-tor
and wealthy businessman, told re-porters
he decided to "suspend my cam-paign
because my opponents lies about
me are hurting my wife, my family, my
friends, my party, and most of all Mon-tanans
from all walks of life. His deci-sion
was announced less than a week
after Democrats began airing a TV ad
accusing Taylor of a scam involving stu-dent
loan money when he ran a beauty
school in Colorado.
Taylor visited our campus twice in
the past few months. On his first visit in
July, Taylor spoke with Chancellor Ron
Sexton about his stance on education.
Dr. Sexton said that Taylor acknowl-edged,
that MSU-Billings needs help
through Congressional support.
Back-wash of Conservatism
It has been said that some Re-publicans
and right-winged Christians
have spent the past years demeaning
gays and lesbians, contributing to ho-mophobia.
On Oct. 10 that strategy
appeared to backfire on conservative
Taylor, who as a Republican had never
spoke out against homosexuals.
"People get caught up in ho-mophobia"
said
Taylor in the Ga-zette.
"I have
never sullied
them.
"People
believe what they
see" Taylor said,
speaking of the
ad run by the
Montana Demo-crats.
Although
the Democratic
Party arranged
the ad, Taylor put
the blame on
Sen. Max
Baucus.
Sen. Baucus' only comment at
press time was, "I want to wish Mike
Taylor and his family well. There are
many important issues facing Montana,
and I will continue to work hard to ad-dress
them in the coming weeks."
The ad showed footage of Taylor
applying lotion to another man's face.
According to the Gazette, Taylor said,
that he demonstrated beauty tech-niques
on women 99 percent of the time
on his TV show.
"The implication is clear" Taylor
said. He told reporters that this ad was
an attempt by Democrats to portray him
as a homosexual. Democrats denied
this charge.
Speaking on the homosexuality
issue, Leigh-Ann Whitworth, a beauti-cian
in Butte and vice president of the
Montana State Cosmetology Associa-tion
told the Gazette, "I don't understand
what being a gay male hairdresser has
to do with being a good U.S. senator.
This whole thing seems silly to me."
Table of causes
Taylor was trailing Baucus badly
in the polls. Taylor, a senator from the
tiny town of Proctor, was the GOP can-didate
opposing Baucus, who is running
for a fifth term in the Senate. A recent
poll by the Lee Newspapers of Montana
showed Baucus' lead at 54 percent to
Taylor's 35 percent. Robert Kelleher
from Butte of the Green Party had one
percent and Libertarian Stan Jones of
Bozeman had none. Ten percent were
undecided. The poll had a margin of
error of plus/minus four percentage
points.
It was reported by the Gazette that
Taylor's campaign ended with just
$40,000 in the bank and $60,000 in bills.
In announcing his decision to
abandon his campaign, Taylor told re-porters,
"When you don't have the
money, without putting your own money
in, to defend your good reputation and
name, when you're on the defense and
you don't have the White House step-ping
up enough financially, then you have
a problem."
According to the Gazette,
Mikkelsen said the campaign had hoped
to raise $50,000 from an upcoming fund-raiser
and was planning others in Cali-fomia
before the Democratic Party un-veiled
its commercial. But even that
money would have been enough to con-tinue
commercials for just another week.
Dan Allen, press secretary for the
National Republican Senatorial Commit-tee,
said on Friday, Oct. 11 that the or-ganization
had spent $600,000 to air TV
ads in Montana since mid-Sept.
At the Polls
There was doubt that anyone
would be interested in running as a write-in
candidate, given the timing and the
tone of the race. When you go to the
polls Nov. 5, Mike Taylor's name will still
be on the ballot. Montana law requires
Taylor's name to remain on the ballot
and does not allow Republicans to an-nounce
a replacement. Write-in candi-dates
have until Oct. 21 to file.
'Write-ins must be spelled cor-rectly
by voters, and the voters must
check the box of the lined space pro-vided"
said Jim Gransberry of the Bill-ings
Gazette. With this given, the write-in
candidates have a near impossible
chance of winning. It is still unclear to
what course of action the Republicans
will take."
The Democratic Party believes
they are not responsible for Taylor drop-ping
out of the running. In a phone con-versation
with Barrett Kiser, Press Sec-retary
of the Democratic Party of Mon-tana,
he said, "Mike Taylor didn't pull out
of the race because of the advertise-ments,
he pulled out because he couldn't
defend his record, he doesn't have sup-port
of Montanans. He was way behind
in the polls before the ad ever aired."
When the entire balance of Con-gress,
particularly in the Senate with its
one-seat margin at stake this year, vot-ers
may see some different tactics be-ing
used, ones that are even more nega-tive
and more expensive than in cam-paigns
of the past.
"It is stunning to me that this hap-pened,
that less than a month out from
the election that a candidate has simply
withdrawn" Craig Wilson, political sci-entist
at MSU-Billings, told reporters
Thursday.
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WHEW! It has been a very long
week in the newsroom. Political and
ethical lines were crossed, you could
cut the tension with a butter knife, and
nerves were high in the office when
deadlines needed crunching!
Getting our first taste of some
bad medicine may have slowed pro-duction
a little, but it sure boosted
moral. Every reporter, staff writer and
editor were working together to get sto-ries
done right and advertisement sold.
It was a sight for sore eyes.
I am so proud of this paper, I
could tear up right now if my aqua
ducts weren't dry and my eyes weren't
so red and splotchy.
This issue of The Retort has a
little bit of everything for the really picky
readers. Stories ranging from funding
and fixing our little college, to the per-
OCTOBER 21 , 2002
ils of bad politics. We have a wide
variety of opinions in this issue
ranging from smoking, to moving
to what's up with those darn
weather forcasters?
This staff has been working
their butts off and their hands to the
bone to get some really tough, in-teresting
and even controversial
stories We sure do love contro-versy.
So if you see a blurry eyed,
messy haired, have asleep student
wandering the halls you can bet
they are either a freshman or from
the Retort staff. Give them a high
five, a kind word or if you are really
brave give them a hug. Let them
know their long hours are not com-pletely
worthless.
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activity since they moved to an office in the LA building. The
employees have also had their hands fill with the renovation
project in the LA building.
[ NEWS 1----40
OCTOBER 21, 2002
Funding Your Education, Tuition Increase
Shaunna Pierce
Copy Editor
The state's current eco-nomic
crisis means ever-increas-ing
tuition costs for students at
Montana's colleges and universi-ties.
This is in spite of the find-ings
of a study, called Measuring
Up 2002, which gave the state an
"F" rating for affordability of
higher education, one of only 13
states to receive this rating. Prior
to this year's legislative budget
recommendations, an average
Montana family spent 25 percent
of its income at four year colleges
and universities, compared to 18
percent nationally. That same
study states that Montana's poor-est
families would have to pay
more than 20 percent of their in-come
for tuition at the state's
least expensive colleges, com-pared
to a national average of
just 8 percent. The study also
found that Montana contributes far
less financial aid to its low-income
students than the rest of the na-tion.
At MSU-B, 80-85 percent of
students receive some form of fi-nancial
aid. The majority of this
aid is in the form of student loans
which the student must repay upon
graduation. MSU-B also has a low
default rate on its student loan re-payment,
regardless of the fact
that the average student leaves
college $16-17,000 in debt. An
additional point of interest is the
fact that while 65 percent of stu-dents
at MSU-B are Yellowstone
County residents, the largest por-tion
of recruitment funding goes for
attracting out-of-state students.
The University System bud-get
lost 8.4 percent of its total state
support—$12.4 million—in the
special legislative session. Forty-two
percent of those cuts will be
replaced by the current tuition
surcharge. This surcharge av-erages
$193.53 per student for
this fiscal year only. An addi-tional
11.9 percent tuition in-crease
had already been ap-proved.
Tuition at Montana's public
institutions has taken on the form
of a user fee. In 1992, for every
three dollars of state funding,
only one dollar of university bud-geting
came form student tuition.
In 2003, it is projected that for
every one dollar of state funding,
two dollars of tuition money will
be needed. That is how little
funding now comes from state
support. And the Legislature
could decrease even that
amount because the university
system has alternative funding in
the form of tuition monies.
There are Legislators who
would like to see a ballot initia-tive
to use Coal Tax money for
educational funding. There are
others who point to the bankrupt-ing
of the Educational Trust Fund
in the past who think it is a bad
idea to use Coal Tax money with-out
a way to replace it. Regents
would like to see future tuition in-creases
accompanied by presen-tations
on what budget cuts could
be made instead. Then they can
better decide if the increase is
necessary. Before, regent John
Mercer, Poison, once a State Leg-islator,
never knew what differ-ence
a $5 or $10 million cut made
to the state University system
budget. Now, the new policy
would publicize the effects of re-duced
funding every time. Univer-sity
of Montana President George
Dennison sees a time in the near
future when Montana's public uni-versities
will become private in-stitutions
unless the current fund-ing
trends are reversed.
installed. Since all new hardware was
required for the new door knobs, it also
made sense to add door locks. Sec-ondly,
the final vision for the L.A. build-ing
en-tails
u p -5
grad-ing
all
class-rooms
with
n e w
c om-puters,
projec-tors,
Elmos,
a n d
other
ad-vanced
tech-nology.
The new door locks are a security
measure and can be configured to be
unlocked by swiping ID cards, and
thus programmed so that they permit
only certain people such as staff and
students to unlock the classrooms.
The new door locks will record who
and when unlocks the doors so that if
any of the new equipment is damaged
or becomes missing school, admin-istrators
will know who was last in the
room.
Brett Harrison
Staff Writer
For the last five months the L.A.
Building has been undergoing exten-sive
renovations. Many of the renova-tions,
which started just after gradua-tion
in May, were completed through-out
the summer. One of the first things
done was the replacement of the roof.
The L.A. Coffee Shop has been re-modeled
and completely redesigned.
The dining area was moved to the front
and a new wall was created within the
shop to facilitate food display and ac-cess.
The cashiers were moved from
the northern side of the shop to the
southern side and thus traffic is diverted
through the newly organized coffee
shop. The glass doors on the back wall
are now easier to access for students
who wish to go outside on the deck.
The old coffee shop had an Imac com-puter
for students to use, which was a
nice convenience. However, after the
renovations, the Imac is absent. The
bookstore in the L.A. building was
moved into a remodeled room across
from the L.A. Coffee Shop. A new Hon-ors
Center on the second floor was
substantially renovated. New lighting
was installed and ceiling tiles were re-placed
throughout the building. New
carpet has also been installed. The Stu-dent
Support Services has been relo-cated
and is now next to the library.
The art department in the basement is
receiving a new air system to help vent
paint fumes. For the rest of the building
ducting will remain the same but there
will be a
new air
condi-tioner
as well
some
n e w
thermo-stats.
Many of
the ther-mostats
are old
a n d
brittle so
repairs
are be-ing
con-ducted
on a
case-by-case basis. A new sprinkler sys-tem
was installed for fire protection and
asbestos was removed from the build-ing
to bring the building up to code.
Restrooms have been updated to
accommodate as manyADA concerns
as possible, with new handicapped en-trances
and automatic doors on the first,
second, fifth, and seventh floors. All new
door knobs have also been installed on
classroom doors. In accordance with
the ADA, a lever style doorknob was
Complete
The elevators in the L.A. Build-ing
are being completely replaced.
Work on the south elevator should be
completed by November and by Feb-ruary
all three will be replaced. The
wait is due to a long lead-time on el-evator
equipment needed to corn-plete
the job.
As for the old Student Support
Services space on the second floor, it
is being turned into what will be the
model classroom for the rest of MSU-Billings.
The classroom will be tiered,
which means the seats will be set at
an incline like that of a stadium, and
the classroom will be equipped with
state-of-the-art equipment and light-ing.
This work is scheduled to be fin-ished
by the end of October.
On the first floor, the west stair-case
in front of the garden has been
removed and the entryway will be
renovated into a major entryway with
new glass front doors that will be handi-cap
accessible. It will open up like a
courtyard with an all glass front. The
Steel Gallery will be moved in on the
first floor opposite from the garden and
it will be all new. The Art Gallery
on the first floor will also be an all
new gallery, renovated and up-dated
with new carpet and lights.
The work being done on the first
floor is scheduled to be completed
in November.
L.A. Building Renovat ions Nearly
What do they do?:
Student Resolution Officer
The Associated Students of
Montana State University — Bill-ings
employs a Student Reso-lution
Officer (SRO) to assist
students with various academic
and non-academic questions
and concerns. The purpose of
the SRO is to help students re-solve
problems, refer them to
the appropriate University of-ficer
for assistance if necessary,
and provide support and guid-ance
to them as they follow the
student complaint resolution
procedure.
Whitney Ewing, the cam-pus
SRO, has been chosen to
be the mediator between stu-dents
and faculty members or
University Administrators. She
has put together a five-step pro-cess
for students to follow if
they have grade complaints.
Step One: Contact the
ASMSU — Billings SRO and
schedule a time for you and the
instructor of the course you are
contesting, to meet to discuss
the assigned grade. This will
take 10 days to set up.
Step Two: This is the ini-tial
meeting with the professor
and student. If not successful
in this meeting, the student is
responsible for furthering the
process. They then have 20 cal-endar
days to set up a meeting
with Department Chair.
Step Three: Here, the
student's second meeting with
staff, the complaint goes in front
of the chair. If the issue is not
resolved, the student needs to
write a formal complaint within
10 days to the Dean or Vice
Chancellor. The SRO can help
contact these people.
Step Four: This is the third
and final meeting before com-plaints
go in front of a commit-tee.
You will meet with the su-pervising
Dean or Vice Chancel-lor.
If nothing is resolved at this
meeting, the complaint goes to
the Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs. The hearing must be set
up within 10 days after com-plaint
received.
Step Five: The Hearing
Committee consists of three
faculty and three students.
They have 30 days to hear the
case and make a final decision.
Ultimately, it is the respon-sibility
of the student filing the
complaint to abide by the time
restrictions set in the 2002-2003
Student Handbook. It is also the
student's job to complete each
part of the process, not the SRO
job. The SRO is there as a re-source,
an observer, and
documenter of the events.
To contact Whitney Ewing
you can call her at the ASMSUB
office at 657-2365, or go to her
office in the SUB, room 213. If
there are any questions about
the SRO you can refer to the
Student Handbook, pages 122
through 124.
Dance with a Professional
OCTOBER 21, 2002 [ NEWS }----$0
Indications of Progress
Deanna Utroske
Creative Editor
The MSU-B Center for Applied
Economic Research (CAER) recently
announced the initial findings in its se-ries
of macroeconomic indicators for
the Billings region. The CAER is a
service organization of the University
which was established almost five
years ago upon the suggestion of
Chancellor Ron Sexton.
CAER's Senior Economist Ann
Adair explained in a recent interview
that the Center is contract funded "by
outside groups or entities." That
means that whatever private or gov-ernment
body employs their services
pays all the expenses the Center in-curs
during that employment. In the
case of the Economic Indicator Se-ries
the Center was funded by regional
corporate sponsorship. Each of the
eleven sponsors has committed to
three years of funding for the series.
Economic indicators are statis-tical
data on things like building per-mits,
tourism statistics, retail sales,
and port of entry shipments. Once
gathered and compiled by the Cen-ter,
these indicators will be published
monthly in the Billings Gazette and
aired on KTVQ2 (both corporate se-ries
sponsors). While MSU-B stu-dents
may not be tuning in for these
reports, local business people will.
The indicators will help all business
people in the region to make produc-tion,
marketing, and other administra-tive
decisions. By watching the eco-nomic
increases and decreases, busi-ness
people can predict the
economy's likely impacts on their par-ticular
field. Most predictions of eco-nomic
impact, or forecasts, will be
made by the Center rather than by
individual businesses. Major predic-tions
such as economic downturn or
improvement across the region are
the most valuable for business
people to acquire.
Besides the target business
audience, some students may in.
fact be tuning in for the series re-ports.
CAER currently employs one
College of Business student as an
intern to assist in the economic in-dicator
series and is seeking an-other
to work with housing data the
center analyzes.
At present there are no plans
to integrate the Center's findings
with instruction at the COB. But, be-cause
Adair is teaching faculty in the
COB, she thinks that in the future
such integration could not only hap-pen
but also prove beneficial to the
students.
Currently both the state and
nation gather economic data and
compile reports. The University of
Montana gathers state-specific
data. But such state and national
agencies do not want the expense
of refining this data to the Billings'.
area regional or county level. Yet
this is what will really assist local
business people in making their de-cisions.
According to Adair the
government's "interest is really
what's going on at the national
level." Though students may not be
on the edge of their seats awaiting
each month's indicators report, over
time they will notice a more efficient
business environment in Billings.
Having up-to-date and region-specific
data will allow businesses
to adapt to regional economic
changes quickly and appropriately.
Business patrons will eventually
notice increased variety and avail-ability
plus decreased prices. The
CAER should prove a motivivational
force in the progress of Billings area
business.
Press
Release
Bill Kline, a professional
dance instructor from New York
City is coming again this year on
Saturday Nov. 2 to teach three
dance workshops.
Kline will be offering the fol-lowing
lessons:
The Lindy Swing, 1-3 pm
The Charleston, 3-4 pm
The Brazilian Samba, 4-5 pm
Prices are very reason-able,
and even more so for all
three workshops. These lesson
times fill up fast, so please sign
up early by calling Lorn at 248-
6133 or Marge at 259-7412.
Workshops will be held at
the beautiful Montana Dance
Action Studio at 14 North 29th
street (only two doors south of
the Athenian Restaurant, and
across the street from the
Guadalajara Restaurant in Bill-ings).
All are welcome and en-couraged
to attend.
Infi) g•aithic
provided by
C'.-1 ER. This
graphic shoirs
the greater
Billings. Region
f•om which the
-1 ER gathers
the economic
indieatiors.
Photo by Jennifer Fenton
Iron Horse. clesigned by student s ut AEU-Billings was
sohl at auction to benifit the Ho rse ofCourse Project .
[ CAMPUS LIFE 1-o OCTOBER 21, 2002
Pranks Taken Seriously at MSU-B
Larissa Leonard
News Editor
Recently a fire alarm was
pulled in the west stairwell, in
Rimrock Hall. People were dis-rupted
from sleep at three a.m.
The Rimrock RA's, Wendy Haker
(Rimrock Resident Director),
and the fire department jumped
in right away to try to find the
person who pulled the alarm.
They started from the top floor
and worked their way down.
Jeannie Mclsaac-Tracy, Director
of Housing and Residential Life,
stated, "We take pranks ex-tremely
seriously."
"We do not have fire
alarms pulled as frequently as
other universities. We did not
have any pulled last year and
have only had one pulled this
year" she stated.
Pulling the fire alarm is
most serious prank, but stu-dents
have pulled all kinds of
pranks ranging from door jam-ming
with pennies, and myste-rious
bowling balls, to more se-vere
crimes. While obscene
message get more attention, all
reported pranks are investi-gated.
A person receiving an ob-scene
message on their answer-ing
machine or dry erase board
should report this incident im-mediately.
The person receiv-ing
the message will be asked
questions about the message
from the Housing Staff and then
the incident will be turned over
to campus police. The student
might be asked, "Do you have
any idea who might have left the
message?"
Campus police and the
housing staff question students
about the incidents that go on,
an example of a question asked
might be, "Who was the last
person you saw in the hallway?"
Mclsaac-Tracy will listen to
what each student has to say
when caught and decide what
the punishment will be. The
punishment might be being told
to move off campus. A person
who thought of pranking before
reading this article may want to
think twice before pulling a
prank.
Sculpture Students Give Back to Community
Jennifer Fenton
Staff Writer
If any of you visited down-town
Billings this summer, you were
sure to see at least one horse
sculpture. That horse, plus another
34 life sized horses and four colts,
was part ofa fundraising project to
help with the renovation of the
Depot. What you probably didn't
know was that 12 MSU-B sculpture
students designed one of those
horses. The project began about a
year and a half ago when the Depot
board was looking into fundraising
projects to help fund the Depot
renovation. Other cities through out
the United States had done similar
projects, including Whitefish, MT. Sue
Olson, President of the board, said,
"If Whitefish can handle a project
like this then maybe was not too
small to try ft."
The board then went to work
planning the layout of the project.
Jane Waggoner Destine, who was
helping with the fundraising, had so
me close friends that were artists
from around the area and asked
them if they would be interested in
doing the project. Artists interested
in the project were to make a
composite of what their horses
would look like. Then a jury would
select a few horses to be sculpted
into the life sized horse sculptures.
The artists were then told if their
idea had won and when they could
pick up or have their mold of the
horse delivered.
All of the horses were deliv-ered
by Feb 2002. The final project
had to be completed by April 2002.
Once the horses were complete
they were stored in the old Nau-tilus
building until the grand show-ing
of them in May. The horses
were placed around Billings for the
public viewing until the auction, held
Sept. 7, 2002.
Meanwhile, MSU-B sculpture
students were challenged by their
profes-sor
to
do a
project
for the
com-munity
a n d
r e -
mem-bered
seeing
t h e
Horse
course
project advertised in the Gazette.
She presented the idea to her
fellow classmates and they decided
to run with it. Teresa called on the
project and just as luck would
have ft got the last available horse.
The horse was available because
another artist had backed out.
Starting later then the rest of
the artists, the students began work-ing.
Many ideas had gone through
the student's minds and they still
hadn't settled on just one. Some
liked the idea of doing a technol-ogy
horse but others did not. Des-tine
brought the idea to the o
theirs that nobody had done a
horse formed around the depot,
and after all this is what the
project was for. Nickoloff and 11 of
her students liked that idea and
decided they would design a horse
shaped like a locomotive. The
students used the locomotive lo-cated
at the Peter Yeagen Jr. Mu-seum
at Logan International Airport
as their model from which they
would work. The construction of
the horse took shapeattheArt Annex
where 80 to
100 hours
were put in
to complete
the horse just
before the
deadline. The
horse was on
display at the
Depot.
Nickoloff,
along with
Cory Wagner,
Joe Krahnert,
Shawn Th-ompson,
Eric
Henry, Kenneth Alefteras, Cathy
Brekke, Clayton Beeghley, Brian
Hutchinson, Clayton Zuelke, Cilon
Bonzer, and Dan Cole were the
students who were resposible for
designing the Iron Horse. Nickoloff
told of the struggles they had gone
through trying to find materials that
would work and the long hours
they had to put in and the other
projects they had on the side.
They also faced frustration as some
students slacked off and left the
remainder of the work up to a just
few students, but mentioned that in
the end it all came together. Sculp-ture
student, Teresa Nickoloff had
thought of doing something well.
Wagner, one of the students
who was mainly responsible for the
Three-dimensional design of the
horse, met with me at Art Space,
located downtown, to talk about the
project and what it meant to him.
Upon meeting Wagner, he appeared
very casual and in tune with the
setting; he wore a vintage pair of
eyeglasses and leather cap that
would not have worked on anybody
but him. He told me about the
process of putting the horse to-gether
and some of the materials
they had to work with for instance
they used heater duct parts, air
conditioning duct parts, automotive
putty, and latex caulking, just to name
a few. Wagner said that the
project had mainly lain on the
shoulders of three students and
that it was difficult at times to get
other things completed. H e said
that he felt it was phenomenal
when it was completed, he was
happy to be a part of something
that raised money giving back to
the community; he is also a volun-teer
at the Yellowstone Art Mu-seum.
Wagner said of Zuelke and
himself, we said that we would do
this and wanted to the best job
possible. Of the horse, doing a train
horse embodied what the project
was all about.
The Iron Horse was pur-chased
by Sandra M. Foxley,from
Denver, CO and is now located at
her home in Roundup, MT. The
project raised a total of $470,000,
exceeding the goal of $350,000.
The money will go toward the
renovation bill. The project was a
great success, and for those of you
who did not get to see any of the
horses some of them are still
located in the city for viewing.
OCTOBER 21, 2002 [ CAMPUS LIFE
The Campus Beat
are hosting political candidate forums and
will set up informational tables for students
questions. The dates for the forums are
scheduled for October 16 at 10 am, Oc-tober
21 at 9:30 pm, and October 24 at 2
pm. There is also money in the contin-gency
account that organizations can
apply for if needed.
• The karaoke night at Stingers in
the SUB will be on October 22 at 7 pm,
this event is held by Chi Alpha. Their
meetings are Thursdays from 7 pm to
8:30 pm in LA148.
• The Cheerleaders are hosting a
Cheer Camp November 2 and 9 from 1
pm to 5 pm for kid's ages 4 to 12. The
cost is $25, which includes a t-shirt, a set
of pom-poms, a snack, and instruction
from the MSU-B Cheer team and Coach
Dani Ruoff. The children will also get the
chance to perform at the November 9
Women's Volleyball game and later on at
a Women's Basketball and a Men's Bas-ketball
game. Pre-registration is highly
recommended and if not parents are ad-vised
to be there at 12:30 pm on Novem-ber
2 . If there are any questions you can
contact Dani Ruoff at 657-2060.
• There is going to be an Athletic
Auction on October 23 at 5:30 to raise
money forAthietic Scholarships.
• RecreationalActivities is up-and-running
and intramurals sports have
started their season. If you would like to
get involved with an intramural you can
go to the Recreational Office, Room 222
in the SUB or call 657-2281.
• RHA are going to the Corn Maize
on October 21 at 7 pm. They are also
holding a Murder Mystery throughout Oc-tober
22 to October 30. On October 29,
RHA will have the Halloween Carnival at
7 pm and the Halloween Dance/Bizarre
Magician on October 31 from 9 pm to 1
pm.
• Remember to get your teams
together for the upcoming College Bowl.
The event is scheduled for November 13
and 14. If there are any questions, con-tact
the Student Union Activities Office in
the SUB.
Here is this edition's installment
of ongoing activities through Montana
State University - Billings Organiza-tions.
Now go out there and get in-volved
in your campus life.
• The Sexual Assault Services
Outreach Office started new hours
this year. They are Mondays and
Tuesdays from 2 pm to 4 pm and Fri-days
from 11 am to 4 pm. They are
located in the Wellness Clinic across
from Petro Hall.
• On November 21 the De-partment
of Music will hold the MSU
Jazz Ensemble at 7:30 pm in the Cisel
Recital Hall. The cost is $4 for adults
and $2 for students and seniors
(MSU-B students, staff, and faculty
free with current 1.D.). Then at 7:30
pm on November 25 the MSU-B
Symphonic Band will perform in the
Cisel Recital Hall. Prices stay as pre-viously
stated.
• "That Thursday Food Faith
Thing" is every Thursday from 5 pm
to 6:45 pm at First English Lutheran
Church, sponsored by United Cam-pus
Ministry. Join them for a home-cooked
meal, some conversation,
and fun and informational worship.
Also, each Wednesday at Noon in
the SUB Atrium they hold a Pizza
Bible Study. The United Campus Min-istry
is trying to start the Habitat for
Humanity Chapter again; if you are
interested you can call Kim at 657-
2165.
• Keep in mind on December
1, the Catholic Campus Ministry is
planning World Aids Day. There will
be more information and planned
events closer to the date.
• The Associated Students of
Montana State University — Billings
(ASMSUB) is in session and meets
every Tuesday at 5 pm; everyone is
welcome to attend. If there are any
concerns or comments take them to
one of your Student Senators. They
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in December. while her daugh-ter
April began the two-year
drafting program just this fall.
April and her mother have al-ways
had closely-knit lives:
shopping, lunching. fishing,
and camping together for as
long as either can remember.
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together." And, once they
graduate from their respective
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of families attending college together
Adam Wickens
(Junior, Sociology)
"Well, because I figured it was a school full
of slackers and the collective stupidity of
the group would make me appear smarter."
Vansetten
(Sophomore, Public Relations)
"Small, far away from HOME!!!"
Taken on : October 3, 2002
CORRECTION
In the last issue's photo poll Wenhua Cao's re-sponse
should have said: "There is not many in-dustry
and not many colleges in Montana. Tons of
people in China."
The Retort would like to appologize for the error.
OCTOBER 21, 2002
ASMSUB President
Hello again from Student Gov-ernment
Senate is on a role this year
th enhancina your student experi-ce.
We have gotten together a float
the Holiday Parade. Christina
rague, working with University Re-ions,
has just been informed that
SU's float was named as the Pa-rade
Grand Marshal. This means
that all you students will be repre-sented
by our float... so you might
want to participate in the decorating!
Hopefully all of you will be
watching for the candidates that we
are sponsoring to inform you of their
positions on different election issues
in the upcoming weeks. Also. Dr.
exton will be hosting an informa-tional
forum on the Nov. 17in to in-cease
your knowledge about the
mpus, Let Matt Guerttman or
hitney Ewing know if you have any
rticular items you would like to dis-cuss.
The COT Senator, Alexis
Urbaniak, is working with other COT
and community college student rep-
Shout- u
resentatives so as to create a bette
working system for the COT student
population, She is looking for corn
ments and/or questions about o
current methods.
The NEW Game Room shout
be moved to the Beartooth by Janu
ary at the latest. It will have mor
billiards tables. foosball, table tenni
air hockey, and a plethora of ex
tremely entertaining video games.
you have a favorite, please conta
Jake Lucas in the Senate Office.
The Financial Board ha
passed bills to sponsor clubs su
as the Percussion Club and Res
Bence Hall Association to attend co
ferences around the nation. They ‘Ni
be bringing back leadership skills a
information for the students affect
by their respective groups. Any que
tions about these bills can be direct
to Ray Champ, the ASMSU-B Bu
ness Manager.
Senate meetings are eve
Tuesday at 5:00pm in the Beartoo
Lounge (until next semester) an
everyone is welcome. The Sena
office is in Room 213 of the SUB an
the phone number is 657-2365.
CAMPUS LIFE
Photo Poll: Why did you choose this school?
By MiSuk Kim
Jen Arko
0 (Senior, Environmental Studies)
"I like the idea of a small school in a
bigger city."
Steven Peterman
(Junior, Elementary Education)
"This is a great school for Education
majors.
Jodi Kimmerle
(senior, Accounting)
"I wanted to go to small University. Also I
like the town of Billings!" Dream Big: Helping Students Discover
and Achieve Their Dreams
Shaunna Pierce
Copy Editor
In the first of a seven part Se-ries,
motivational speaker Gary
Tuerack presented an outstanding
lecture. The small but enthusiastic
group of student attendees received
words of advice and encouragement.
With the help of several visualization
exercises, the audience learned that
taking chances is what leads to suc-cess.
The highly energetic Tuerack,
in an upbeat, engaging style,
dropped pearls of wisdom quicker
than most people can talk. Each idea
dovetailed into the next, making a
concrete whole; a way to have a life
worth living.
Tuerack gave step-by-step in-structions
for attaining goals. Get
started! Every moment is
The Moment of Truth. Develop
courage by doing courageous things.
Do what you would do if you knew
you wouldn't fail. In dynamic fashion,
he outlined the traits of successful
people. Then he gave us the tools
to attain those traits. You just have
to be brave enough to take the tool.
The only difference between a Goal
and a Dream is that a goal had a
deadline.
Tuerack is an internationally
known motivational speaker and au-thor.
He was voted one of the out-standing
speakers of the 20th cen-tury
by the International Biographi-cal
Center in Cambridge, England,
he is a past APCA Speaker of the
Year, and has been nominated for
NACA Speaker of the Year. He is
currently President of The Society
of Success and Leadership (see
sidebar). His publications include
"Better Grades in Less Time" and
"Discovering the Secrets of the
World's Most Successful People."
The seven part lecture series,
which begins with Tuerack, is spon-sored
by Student Union Activities
Council with student fees allocated
by ASMSU-B. This means that the
lecture has been paid for by your
tuition and is now free for you to at-tend.
Take advantage of your
money and come to the next lecture,
which will be October 29 and will
feature John Tuitel's acclaimed pro-gram
"Dancing in the End Zone."
Wendy Haker
(Graduate school, Student Affairs)
- Basically, Education program! ! Small
environment, opportunity to interact with
faculty and staff."
OCTOBER 21, 2002 [ VOICE 1---0
Potential Strike Affects Education Majors - Editorial
Larissa Leonard
Staff Editorial
Education majors are torn about
their feelings regarding a potential
strike by teachers within School Dis-trict
2.
The professors in the Education
Department have advised the students
to take action only if the strike actually
occurs. These actions might include
agreeing with the teachers in the strike
or staying in school and not substitut-ing
for the striking teachers. However,
education professors at MSU-B are
concerned that students who might be
substitute teaching will miss opportu-nities
in the classroom to learn about
the profession they have chosen. This
is a very delicate situation and affects
many students on campus because
of the high number of Education ma-jors
and other students who also have
children in School District 2. Most feel
a passion to support the teachers' view.
As an education major, I also support
their views.
I am not only an education ma-jor
who some day hopes to be a
teacher; my dad is a teacher in
Glasgow, MT, where I grew up. I was
only 9 years old but I can remember
vividly when my dad and his fellow
teachers went on strike that summer
within my school district. Luckily that
strike ended right after the new school
year began; however, the stress and
hardships my family went through dur-ing
that summer are something I will
never forget. Because they went on
strike to protest the insurance prices,
the teachers were dropped from their
health insurance coverage. Once the
strike was settled a new health insur-ance
carrier had to be found. Even
though I was a little girl I recall the anxi-ety
my family experienced.
Rumors are flying about teach-ing
placements being changed, but no
one will know until the teachers from
School District 2 decide to strike or not.
Students have heard they might be
moved out of their teaching placements
if they are in School District 2, into non-
School District 2 areas like Laurel, Hunt-ley
Project, private schools or other
schools. The professors are doing their
best to watch the news to give the stu-dents
the best advice about what to do
in this situation. Student teachers in
Billings were told they might have to
stay in the teaching program an extra
month, but the decision was made that
they should not be punished for what
is beyond their control.
We need to remember that the
people teaching in the state of Mon-tana
are here for the kids. However,
the pay is one of the lowest in the na-tion,
ranking at 47. Student teachers
are in a tough spot because they may
be called on to teach in the Spring or
the Fall and if they side with the teach-ers
now, School District 2 may decide
not to hire them later. If the student
teachers side with School District 2, the
teachers may look down on them and
the students lose the friendship of the
people they work with. The strike has
been a real eye opener for some stu-dent
teachers because if makes them
realize they might have to move in or-der
to do what they love to do. If that
happens the school district loses; the
state of Montana loses, too.
The issue between the school dis-trict
and the teachers boils down to in-creased
health insurance costs being
absorbed by the teachers who already
earn low salaries. The message seems
to be that it is best for a teacher to be
single and without any family (depen-dents)
in order to afford to work here.
This is not a good situation.
Because of the low pay teachers
earn in Montana, new teachers are leav-ing
the state in order to find better pay-ing
jobs. This is a shame. Young teach-ers
offer a refreshing perspective and
new ideas for students. On the other
hand I have had, teachers who have
taught 30 years and I would not trade
the experience they have brought to the
classroom for anything, It seems to
me a combination of experienced
teachers and new teachers would be
ideal. How can we retain them if we
keep chipping away at their salaries?
I hope this matter is resolved in a
way in which the teachers' needs are
met and they don't have to go on strike.
Students want to help substitute but they worry if
they don't respect the picket line it will jeopardize
their chances for teaching positions in the future.
Name Brand Weather - Editorial
Richard Castillo
Staff Editorial
How would you feel if one day
you start to get really sick, you enter
a doctor's office, and when he's
through with his tests he comes to
you and tells you that you have any-where
from one hour to 10 years to
live? Or would you be uneasy if the
gas gauge in your car read "some-what
full but not quite empty?"
Weather forecasting in Billings
can give you that same effect. It
seems that on any given day fore-casts
from T.V. to newspaper can
cover a whole spectrum of options.
One station may give a forecast, tell-ing
the public we will have 74 de-grees
as a high with clear skies,
while a station just down the num-bers
gives you 64 and cloudy, It
makes you wonder if they call each
other in the morning to divvy out fore-casts
so that inevitably one of them
will end up correct that day.
I have recently moved here
from the South, tornado alley to be
exact. Now given, there is some
variation in the forecasts, but they
usually range in the two and three
degrees not the 1 Os and 20s. When
there is a storm coming, most likely
they will tell you where it's going to
hit and when, within a couple of min-utes.
If you see a storm warning for
your area, sure enough, when you
look outside there are ugly clouds in
the sky and your hair begins to stand
up because of the lightning static.
Sadly, I've experienced the ex-act
opposite in the beautiful town of
Billings, from weather forecasts for
the present day that can change from
one 15-minute weathercast to the
next, to public emergency warnings
for a severe thunderstorm in Billings
while the skies were clear and quite
pleasant.
I've heard people give the ex-cuse,
"In Montana, if you don't like
the weather, just wait a minute and it
will change." I'm sorry to say it, but
that is also a saying in the South. In
many ways the predictability is quite
similar, which begs the question,
"Why can't the great and educated
weatherman give me something I
couldn't possibly guess just as well?"
I had to find out the answer to
that question so I decided to talk to
those who would know most. I got
an interview with Bob McGuire, chief
forecaster for KTVQ 2, Cat Country
KBUL, and The Billings Gazette. I
also spoke with Ed McIntosh a
weather forecaster at KULR 8,
KGHL FM98.5, and Hot 101.9; he
also does a radio show on 107.5.
The River.Truthfully, I lost a lot of my
pessimism when I actually got a
chance to see what goes on with the
weather forecasting world of Billings.
Now don't get me wrong, I'm still
critical, but maybe softened up a bit.
First of all, if you can't stand
the weather or the forecasts, you'll
probably always get along with the
men who give the forecast. I've got
to say that these guys were as nice
as they come and tried to help and
explain as much as possible. Bob
McGuire has about 30 years expe-rience
in broadcasting and moved
his way up through the ranks to be-come
who he is today. He admits
openly that he does not have a me-teorologist
degree, and says that a
degree is as "good as gold." He's
had to learn everything on his own
and is tested yearly to earn a seal
from the National Weather Associa-tion.
He graduated with a business
degree, but worked his way through
college in broadcasting and it stuck.
Bob once worked out of Lawton, OK
when their radar was state of the art
and came out of a B29 Bomber. Bob
showed me the Weather Center at
Q2 and gave me a great overview
of how they produce their forecasts.
The Q2 weather team relies on
the Associated Press and the Na-tional
Weather Service for their na-tional
and local weather maps and
information. Bob said that he be-lieves
the forecasts are a 70/30 com-puter
to human ratio. He has to take
advice from his weather resources
and then make his own judgments
on which of the conflicting weather
maps he wants to believe. Bob has
to rely heavily on his extensive ex-perience
to make each broadcast as
accurate as possible, but he said he
takes it personally when he gets it
wrong and will show the public his
forecast for the last day even when
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Name Brand
Weather Cont.
his forecast went haywire.
Ed McIntosh is very similar
to Bob McGuire in that he doesn't
carry a degree, but relies on ex-tensive
experience and knowl-edge
of a land that he has lived
in his entire life. He graduated
with a degree in Broadcasting and
then later became a weatherman.
Ed is a "Montana boy" and finds
that Billings has its advantages
over other areas in the country
because he's lived here much of
his life. He can look
back and remember
hard winters and sees
the difference in
weather in the recent
years. Although Ed and
Bob's equipment are
very similar, they come
out very close in their
forecasts on a regular
basis. Ed relies more on
the NWS than Bob, but that may
have something do with the NWS
being less than two blocks down
the road.
Shawn Stevens is a rela-tively
new face in Billings. His
presence as chief meteorologist
at ABC6 and FOX4 gives the
newly formed news station a great
personality and knowledge when
it comes to the weather, and an
educated look at the weather in a
city where he is the only T.V.
broadcasting Meteorologist. His
equipment is all brand new and
his outlook is fresh. Coming
straight from San Francisco
where he was a producer for the
weather broadcasts, he finds Bill-ings
weather to be much differ-ent
but not exactly negative. He
seems to have a very math driven
thought process. Where I would
fall on my face after my brain ex-ploded
from all the equations,
Shawn could probably continue
forever. He showed me how
weather forecasting is really all
about the math and the precision
with which the computers can cal-culate
the information being fed
to them through sensors and
measurements. Shawn was a key
person in putting more precision
into the weather forecasting on
the West Coast through his math
calculations. Shawn and the net-work
give a 6-degree guarantee
to their weather. From many other
perspectives this is a very dan-gerous
gamble in the world of
weather. The extremes are any-where
from weathermen being
hanged by the very people who
they forecast to, to libel suits
against stations for deaths due to
inaccurate forecasting. There are
those days, though, that the guar-antees
don't stand up and Shawn
has to apologize for the mistake.
He seems to have no problem
with admitting his mistakes, but
admits if he wakes up in the
morning and sees he was drasti-cally
wrong, the prospect of go-ing
out in public is something he
may think about twice.
I learned a lot about weather
in Billings from these knowledge-able
men. Much of what I learned
satisfied my curiosity, like the fact
that no one except the airport has
a Doppler radar. This fact can be
both relaxing and ominous. Ac-cording
to Ed, a tornado only hits
the county every three years.
Since each of the networks in
town use the airport's information
you know that you won't get con-flicting
information. There is one
glaring problem with this whole
picture. Ed, Bob and Shawn don't
actu-ally
get
the in-forma-tion
di-rectly
from
the air-port.
Actu-ally
the airport sends the info to
the NWS who then sends it to
Washington D.C., where another
computer sends the info to a little
town north of Boston,
Massachusettes. From there it is
fed into their respective satellites
where they can interpret and then
broadcast the information. In-credibly
from the moment a tor-nado,
that triennial occurrence in
Yellowstone County, hits the
ground it takes five to ten min-utes
before anyone in the county
has an idea of what is going on.
Of course that poor unlucky fam-ily
who is still sitting on their
couch, in their house with no roof,
and their dog in the nearby tree;
have a clear understanding of
what just happened when Bob
and Ed broadcast the information.
In the local network's defense, a
Doppler radar can cost millions of
dollars.
In many ways these guys
seem like they have it all together,
but as some Billings residents can
testify, they sometimes miss the
mark by many degrees. My sym-pathy
for the weather forecasters
in this beautiful city has increased
tenfold. Apparently they
deal with all kinds of vari-ables
in this strange
shaped country. They
have to deal with every-thing
from rain clouds that
drop water but then
evaporate it back up be-fore
it ever hits the ground
to those "goofy wind cur-rents"
as Bob McGuire put
it.
I'm not asking for such pre-cision
that they can tell me the
amount of water in each rain drop
or the exact number of snow-flakes
that will hit the ground in a
given day, only that the weather
forecasts I receive don't sound
like they came from a dartboard
with degrees and conditions
pasted on it. I'm not just talking
about the T.V. stations now, I'm
talking about the weather chan-nel,
that little weather button I hit
on my AT&T digital cable, and ev-e
r y
other
water
me-dia
that I
go to,
t o
find
o u t
whether I need a sweater or a
swimsuit. The other night my digi-tal
cable gave me a forecast for
clear skies and fair temperatures,
then as I paged down they then
explained to me that there was a
chance for sleet and snow the
same day. Well, of course, there's
a chance for sleet and snow,
there's also a chance that Carrot
Top will be funny again, but none
of us will say it, because the
chances are so slight its ludicrous
to mention.
The difference between 35
degrees and 25 degrees means
a lot if you are H2O; the same
goes for everyone who has to
spend any time outside. The
weather plays a huge part in
many people's lives, from el-ementary
teachers to city work-ers.
If you don't know what is
coming it can be hard to plan your
day. If the forecaster says it's go-ing
to rain, you want to plan in-side
activities for your kids, or
plan to wear proper equipment to
work. If you are a contractor who
can only work on days when it
isn't raining, you'd like the fore-casts
to be accurate so you can
plan ahead which days you won't
be working. The accuracy of the
weather forecasts one way or an-other
can cost a lot of time and
money if not correct. These days
both time and money seem in
short supply.
It seems I sit in a dilemma.
Do I continue to gripe and moan
about the drops of rain hitting my
glasses and smearing my vision
as I walk across campus, when I
was told it would be bright and
shiny? Or do I give props to the
men who don't want to go to work
in the morning knowing that
they've called the weather just a
tad wrong? Can I honestly live
my life, knowing that my fingers
feel like they fell off and my ears
long ago abandoned my body for
exposing them to such harsh cli-mates
when I was told it would
be in the 70s? Or do I blame my-self
for trusting in a system that
by definition is just a simple edu-cated
guess? In all honesty this
will always be the reality, and no
matter how much any of us moan
and groan we will end up wet
when we want to be dry and cold
when we expected warm. I also
have to admit that this isn't an ev-ery
day occurrence and despite
the weather, I live a good life.
Thank goodness I even have
someone who is constantly look-ing
after my environmental well
being, unlike maybe the Donner
family who had to eat each other
because they got stuck some-where
in the middle of winter. Ok,
I am a being a tad dramatic, but
after all is said and done I want
to say thanks to the guys who try
everyday to get it right consis-tently,
and beat themselves over
the heads if they don't. At least
now I understand why I can't al-ways
have it my way.
They have to deal with everything
from rain clouds that drop water but
then evaporate it back up before it
ever hits the ground to those "goofy
wind currents" as Bob McGuire put
it.
The accuracy of the weather forecasts
one way or another can cost a lot of
time and money if not correct. These
days both time and money seem in
short supply.
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Moving Out with the Queen of the Road - Editorial
OCTOBER 21, 2002
After moving residences
about seven times in a two-year
period, I feel I should
share some of the wisdom I
have absorbed with my fellow
college students and young
adults, out on their own for the
first time in an unforgiving
world. For those freshmen
students who can't seem to
stop getting busted drinking
Boones in their dorm rooms,
and for the older students who
finally want to leave mother
and get their own place, here
are some insights on off-cam-pus
living.
My first adventure began
when I endeavored to leave
the dorms in the summer of
2001. I had lived on the fifth
floor of Petro for four semes-ters,
and loved it. Yet I knew
there was more to life than
sharing a bathroom with 20
other girls. It was time to
move on. Little did I know that
real life was suddenly about to
begin for me.
I moved into a house al-ready
occupied by seven of my
best friends. We shared a
single bathroom upstairs; ev-eryone
had his or her own area
to live in. My area was the
laundry room. It was wet, dirty,
and closetless. I invested $26
in a metal tube wardrobe.
Putting it together in-volved
a lot of cussing, throw-ing
of tubing, and eventually
enormous amounts of duct
tape holding the rickety pipes
together. For weeks after that,
I would come home to a huge pile
of my clothes on the filthy floor.
Finally I just got used to the fact.
I also got used to people
coming into my "bedroom" (a
mattress on half of the basement
floor) at all hours of the night.
Picture this: it's 4 am and I have
to work at 8 am...
"Hey Amy! Whatcha doin?"
they'd lean in with drunken
breath, and I'd roll my eyes and
summon up my meanest growl,
"Trying to sleep!" Over the last
three years I've been in college,
I have somehow gained a repu-tation.
People are sort of scared
to wake me up because of my
foul temper. Usually I am pretty
nice, but when I only have an
hour or two to sleep, and you
screw with it, watch out! I don't
like to waste my sleeping time
being nice to people.
Living at 2401 Miles that
summer was one experience af-ter
another. I realized that food
is not something one can take for
granted. I survived on wild game
my dad would send from
Lewistown. I learned how to
make a pretty damn good steak-using
whatever was in the fridge
at the time, including sour
cream, beer, or mysterious look-ing
leftovers that were left un-claimed.
Cooking is a creative
business that requires some kind
of intuition about what kind of
foods taste good with ketchup.
Ramen noodles hold infinite pos-sibilities.
I learned not all roommates
are destined to be best friends
forever. When I moved in; one
guy was very bitter. Previously
he had the basement all to him-self;
now he had to share. He
never missed a chance to re-mind
me how unwelcome I was
there. But I tried to be sweet
as sugar, and I actually liked it
because my being nice worked
quite well to piss him off..
Another thing you may no-tice
when living with multiple
roommates is that no matter
when you decide to do laundry,
at any hour of the day there are
inevitably mildewing clothes in
the washer and crinkled laundry
that has been in the dryer for
days. Usually, I break down and
do the straggler's laundry for
them, meanwhile venting and
muttering things like,
"Motherfrickin' mothertrucker,
can't do your own motherfrickin'
laundry..." well, you get the pic-ture!
I can never believe how
many articles of clothing can be
shoved in one of those ma-chines
at once. Try to encour-age
people to do the laundry in
the timeliest fashion possible.
If that doesn't work for ya,
throwing their clean or wet
clothes in piles by the kitty lit-ter
box usually does.
Towards the end of the
summer, two girls I had lived
with in the dorms tracked me
down; they wanted me to find a
house and live with them in the
fall. After four months with
seven very melodramatic room-mates,
a bedroom with a door
sounded like heaven. Little did
I know what adventures were in
store for me at the Broadwater
House. But that's a story for an-other
time.
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A Smoker's Lament: It Can Kill You
Michelle VanLandin • ham
Staff Editorial
A week ago my uncle passed
away. He was 58 years old. There
was no prior history of health prob-lems
but the cause of death was a
massive coronary. For someone
who didn't have high blood pres-sure
or serious cholesterol issues,
the question of "why?" was spout-ing
from my family's lips. The an-swer,
however, was quickly found.
Yes, my uncle exercised regularly,
taking walks and such, which isn't
that bad for someone of his age.
He had a lot of stress, which s l'm
sure was a major contribution to his
death, as well as an alcohol prob-lem,
and he was a smoker. Actu-ally,
calling him a chimney might be
a bit more accurate. He smoked
three packs a day.
I, like many other members of
my family, am a smoker. I picked
up the habit in high school for rea-sons
that now escape me. I cur-rently
smoke around a pack a day
and while living in the dorms makes
it possible for me to cut down, my
busy schedule doesn't allow me
that much time. I work at a bar, so
I smoke there. I smoke while driv-ing.
I smoke before and after
meals. I smoke when I go out. I
smoke in between classes. Hell, I
smoke after I leave the gym! I ad-mit
that thanks to my four dollars a
day, the smoking industry is living
comfortably.
I began my education at MSU-Billings
in January of this year. Dur-ing
my walks across the campus,
cigarette in hand, I couldn't help but
notice the many non-smokers who
looked at me with their faces con-torted
in disgust and contempt. Af-ter
living in Los Angeles, where
smoking is banned from nearly ev-erywhere,
I felt it easy to ignore
these little annoyances. It was the
signs, however, that began to irri-tate
me. You've all seen them. The
posters of fellow students lounging
on the grass with a caption "65%
of MSU-Billings Students are To-bacco
Free" and the pamphlets
from the Student Health Center of-fering
a free package to those who
are serious about giving up the
habit. It's difficult to escape them.
I know it's unhealthy. I am
well aware of how gross it is. Be-lieve
it or not, I hate this habit, and
I wish I had never started it. I ad-mit,
the first cigarette in the morn-ing
is very wonderful, but after
that, it's all down hill. So, after at-tending
my uncle's funeral, I made
a command decision: I was go-ing
to quit smoking.
My first day was difficult. I
began it well, mostly due to my
lack of cigarettes on hand. I didn't
think it would be too hard. I had
class to busy myself with, and im-mediately
afterwards, I would
have to be on my way to work. I
could do this. I had gum stashed
at work, and as long as I could
make it past that, I'd be home free.
I walked to campus, eager to see
fellow non-smokers and for the
first time really being able to join
in on their fun of making the un-healthy
feel really guilty about pol-luting
our air. I found no one. No,
that isn't entirely true. I found
smokers. Nothing but smokers.
Smokers walking, smokers stand-ing
outside of the buildings, smok-ers
in the parking lot, smokers
lounging the same grassy knoll
used for the non-smoking cam-paign!
I desperately searched for
the pamphlets that had plagued
me for so long, but there were
none to be found.
I'll be the first to admit it. I
caved. There is a little known fact
about the community of smokers.
We all know what it's like to be
without, so if someone comes up
to you with that wild-eyed, desper-ate
need for the nicotine under your
fingernails look, and asks politely for
a cigarette, most likely they will get
one. We're the last of a dying breed
(literally) and we have created a
bond. Bumming a cigarette can spark
up a conversation and a new friend
can be found. So, fully aware that I
could get one, I walked up to a nice
looking gentleman and begged for
cancer. I still feel guilty about it. I
smoked. But it was an American
Spirit, so it wasn't like I enjoyed it. I
resolved to do better for the rest of
the day.
Unfortunately, I caved again.
Someone had a new pack of
Marlboros, which are my brand as
well and I swear I wanted to jump the
guy for them. He was kind and gave
me one. Okay, bad Michelle! Bad! I
knew I wouldn't mess up again... until
I got to work.
So my first day was a
complete loss and I ended up
smoking just as much, if not
more, than I normally smoke.
I'm still trying and I'm planning
on going to the Health Center
for one of the packages. I'm
tired of my clothes, my car, and
pretty much everything I own
smelling like an ashtray. I want
to walk into a restaurant and
proudly tell the waitress, "Non-smoking,
please." I may have
to view the campus as a
minefield and attempt to cross
it without any more casualties
but whatever it will take, I will
succeed. Hopefully before the
winter comes, because I'd
rather be one of the people in-side
the building, warm and
dry, than one of the group hud-dling
together outside under
the cloud of smoke.
Retched Child
Hey there little ugly girl. Why don't you come over here
and I'll claw up your face and rip out your hair?
404-01011.0611.1*Witmoi
Go ahead... cry. No one cares. Crawl back into that hole
that back corner of your mind that no one knows about.
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Isn't that where you break your mirrors slice up
your wrists? Dying can be a blessing, especially when
you've done it so often.
The blood is running out in these colors. You paint your
facQi[iwcrimson, cheek flush
Open your eyes with your beautiful mask placed so
exquisitely.
Hey there pretty girl. Do you want.to play?
-ANONYMOUS SUBMISSION-
[ Creativity ]---cs OCTOBER 21, 2002
FOR THOSE WHO TAKE LIFE TOO SERIOUSLY
Taken from an email forward.
1. Save the whales. Collect the
whole set.
2. A day without sunshine is
like, night.
3. On the other hand, you have
different fingers.
4. I just got lost in thought. It
was unfamiliar territory.
5. 42.7 percent of all statistics
are made up on the spot.
6. 99 percent of lawyers give
the rest a bad name.
7. I feel like I'm diagonally
parked in a parallel universe.
8. You have the right to remain
silent. Anything you say will be mis-quoted,
then used against you.
9. I wonder how much deeper
the ocean would be without sponges.
10. Honk if you love peace and
quiet.
11. Remember half the people
you know are below average.
12. Despite the cost of living,
have you noticed how popular it re-mains?
13. Nothing is fool-proof to a
talented fool.
14. Atheism is a non-prophet
organization.
15. He who laughs last thinks
slowest.
16. Depression is merely an-ger
without enthusiasm.
17. Eagles may soar, but wea-sels
don't get sucked into jet en-gines.
18. The early bird may get the
worm, but the second mouse gets
the cheese.
19. I drive way too fast to worry
about cholesterol.
20. I intend to live forever - so
far so good.
21. Borrow money from a pes-simist
- they don't expect it back.
22. If Barbie is so popular, why
do you have to buy her friends?
23. My mind is like a steel trap
- rusty and illegal in 37 states.
24. Quantum mechanics: The
dreams stuff is made of._
25. The only substitute for good
manners is fast reflexes.
26. Support bacteria - they're
the only culture some people have.
27. When everything's coming
your way, you're in the wrong lane
and going the wrong way.
28. If at first you don't succeed,
destroy all evidence that you tried.
29. A conclusion is the place
where you got tired of thinking.
30. Experience is something
you don't get until just after you need
it.
31. For every action there is
an equal and opposite criticism.
32. Bills travel through the mail
at twice the speed of checks
33. Never do card tricks for the
group you play poker with.
34. No one is listening until you
make a mistake.
35. Success always occurs in
private and failure in full view.
36. The colder the x-ray table
the more of your body is required
on it.
37. The hardness of butter is
directly proportional to the softness
of the bread.
38. The severity of the itch is
inversely proportional to the ability
to reach it.
39. To steal ideas from one
person is plagiarism; to steal from
many is research.
40. To succeed in politics, it is
often necessary to rise above your
principles.
41. Monday is an awful way to
spend 1/7th of your life.
42. You never really learn to
swear until you learn to drive.
43. Two wrongs are only the
beginning.
44. The problem with the gene
pool is that there is no lifeguard.
45. The sooner you fall behind
the more time you'll have to catch
up.
46. A clear conscience is usu-ally
the sign of a bad memory.
47. Change is inevitable ex-cept
from vending machines.
48. Get a new car for your
spouse - it'll be a great trade!
49. Plan to be spontaneous -
tomorrow.
50. Always try to be modest
and be proud of it!
51. If you think nobody cares,
try missing a couple of payments.
52. How many of you believe
in telekinesis? Raise my hand...
53. Love may be blind but mar-riage
is a real eye-opener.
54. If at first you don't succeed,
then skydiving isn't for you.
Call For Submissions
Poetry
Creative Essays
Short Stories
Art
Photos
To have your work considered for publication in your
campus newspaper,
The Retort
• Drop it off @ room 225 in the Student
Union Building, attn: Deanna
• Email it to: deannautroske@yahoo.com
Be sure to include your name, phone number, and email
address with your submission.
An Artists Notebook: Just Killing Time
by: Justin Zappe
Justin is first semseter at the COT
getting his degree in automotive
technology.
These graphics were doodled in
a class, and were origially in-tended
for a story that was to be
published. Instead he ended up
just kiling time.
Did You Ever Wonder? Here's the Answers!
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Mirage
I am reading near the
window.
From a corner of my
eye, I see
the most beautiful bird
dancing with a warm
breeze:
A bird never seen be-fore
with feathers of yellow
and blue
radiant in the sun.
I look up from my book
quickly
so as
to catch a good look
before my movement
startles the bird away.
It didn't fly!
I see that it can't
let go of the stem it
holds on the lilac bush.
Its colors,
now in my direct sight,
blend to
green.
Without feathers or
wings
that leaf just keeps
twirling and flapping.
As long as I watch
it never
flies.
By Deanna Utroske
[Creativity]-0 OCTOBER 21, 2002
Why do clocks run clockwise?
Before the advent of clocks, we used
sundials. In the northern hemisphere,
the shadows rotated in the direction we
now call "clockwise." The clock hands
were built to mimic the natural move-ments
of the sun. If clocks had been
invented in the southern hemisphere
"clockwise" would have been in the op-posite
direction.
What does "M&M" stand for?
Two names — Mars and Murrie,
the head honchos at M&M Candies
in the early 1940's.
How do horses sleep standing
up?
Horses have a unique system
of interlocking ligaments and bones
in their legs, which serves as a sling
to suspend their body weight without
strain while their muscles are com-pletely
relaxed. Thus, horses don't
have to exert any energy counciously
to remain standing -- their legs are
locked in the proper position during
sleep.
And finally....
Why is yawning contagious?
The most asked Imponderable,
and we have no good answer, and only
a few lame theories. Who studies yawn-ing?
Taken from Why Do Clocks Run
Clockwise and other Imponderables by
David Feldman.
[ A&E OCTOBER 21, 2002
The Silence of the Lambs Trilogy Ends Where It Begins
She Said
Jamie Porter
Staff Writer
Moves at an
unstoppable pace
If you are someone with a
twisted curiosity for psychologi-cal
thrillers, then - Red Dragon"
is the perfect movie with a pace
that is rarely matched.
As the story begins. the
audience is introduced to ex-
FBI agent Will Graham. the
man responsible for catching
Dr. Lecter. nearly losing his life
in the process. Graham (Ed-ward
Norton) retired shortly af-ter
the arrest and now. years
later. is asked to come out of
retirement to aid the Bureau in
capturing a new serial killer.
Graham reluctantly agrees but
realizes that he must enlist the
help of the frightening Dr.
Lecter (Anthony Hopkins) in
order to get inside the killer's
Creepy Success
This movie is taken from
Thomas Harris' first novel in the
trilogy, "Red Dragon."
"Red Dragon" is a thriller
which pre-dates both
"Hannibal" and "Silence of the
Lambs." It begins with Hannibal
Lecter, our hero villain, free and
serving at an ironic dinner for
his high-class friends and col-leagues.
You then learn how
Lecter came to live in a small
cell with a glass wall. "The Red
Dragon" refers to the Red
Dragon biblical book of Revela-tions
portraying the devil as a
great Red Dragon. Through a
tortured childhood a man
named Francis Dolarhyde,
played by Ralph Fiennes, has
become delusional and schizo-phrenic.
You almost feel a pity
for this man who takes much
pleasure, it seems, in butcher-ing
his fellow humans. He has
gained a great admiration of
and psychotic attraction to Dr.
Lecter and begins to corre-spond
with the cannibalistic
doctor.
Edward Norton plays FBI
agent Will Graham who has a
special ability to put himself in
the shoes of psychotics and
with this ski:I solve each mur-der.
Lecter has a special rela-tionship
with Graham because
it was Graham who ultimately
put him away. It, a twisted rela-mind.
As the story unfolds. Gra-ham
is forced to face the fears
of his past and the dark depths
of his own identity.
There are many reasons
why "Red Dragon" is so capti-vating.
One aspect would be the
way the director. Brett Ratner,
manipulates each scene in or-der
to show the audience the
many dimensions of each char-acter.
The viewer finds sympa-thetic
feelings toward virtually
everyone in the film. not an
easy task
when dealing
with the sub-ject
of serial
killing.
Another
reason that
this film
might be of
tionship,
Lecter ap-pears
to help
Graham inter-pret
the Red
Dragon murders, but at the
same time is trying to kill Gra-ham.
In this sometimes fast
paced, sometimes slow film,
you enter a world of twisted lives
and twisted fates. Reba
McClane, played by Emily
Watson, is a blind and endear-ing
woman who works in a dark-room
for the same company as
Mr. Dolarhyde. In her riveting
performance, Emily becomes
romantically attached to Francis
and begins a quite morbid court-ing
relationship. Because she is
blind, his house is quite normal
and his actions, although sus-picious,
are ignored because of
his already strange personality.
In one scene she uses his bath-room,
which sports a shattered
mirror and bloodstains she is
absolutely oblivious to. The end-ing
of this movie will take you
on a roller coaster ride of emo-tions
and leave you satisfied.
If you've had the pleasure
of watching "Silence of the
Lambs" and "Hannibal", I don't
believe you'll be disappointed
with "Red Dragon." I don't usu-ally
enjoy cheesy horror flicks
that leave me looking for the
fake blood, dummies, the hor-interest
is the fact that it is the
prequel to The Silence of the
Lambs." The audience is given
an idea of who Lecter was prior
to his incarceration and also
learns some of the details that
led to his capture.
The most obvious reason
that Red Dragon" is a must-see
movie would naturally be
the actors starring in it. The
chemistry between Hopkins and
Norton is unquestionably fault-less.
Ralph Fiennes. the actor
who plays
the serial
killer, does
an excellent
job at strik-ing
fear into
the hearts of
the audi-ence
mem-rid
acting
and predict-able
endings
that usually
come with
one of those films. Although
"Red Dragon" could be listed as
horror, it is smart and holds you
in your seat till the roller
coaster ride has finished.
Hannibal Lecter, played by
Anthony Hopkins, is
well... Hannibal. Scary, creepy,
and very convincing, Hopkins
gives a performance that up-holds
my personal legendary
opinion of him. Ralph Fiennes
gives an excellent performance
that takes you into all sorts of
emotional dimensions. You
want to sympathize with his
character as he tries to find a
way out of his madness, but
then ultimately fails. Edward
Norton gave a bland perfor-mance
with what could be
called a "stock character." It
confuses me whether he was
actually trying to be that dull or
the portrayal just ended up that
way through some very unin-spired
acting. Although he is a
main point, in the movie, even
his character's wife, played by
Mary-Louise Parker, overshad-ows
his performance. After
American X, it's hard to see
Norton any better and this
movie is no exception. Freddy
Lounds, a tabloid reporter
bers.
I give this movie five out of
five stars. The elements of "Red
Dragon" come together to form
a complete masterpiece filled
with a variety of mental twists.
If you are up for a thrill. then
strap in to this psychological
roller coaster ride and hang on.
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give you goose bumps or at leas
make you never want to put you
arms on armrests again. Emil
Watson's blind performance wil
make your heart ache, and prob
ably leave you with a few gra
hairs. I believe she should tak
home an Oscar for her perfor
mance. Bret Ratner's directin
is riveting and gives a true feel
ing of suspense.
This movie is rated R fo
violence, grisly images, Ian
guage, some nudity and sexual
ity.
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stars, and recommend it t
those who don't have a wea
stomach. Although it is a preque
and you may 1.1ve some feeling
of deja vu, it is well worth th
price of the ticket at the theatre.
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movie of the year, but it wil
make you think twice about tha
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The Young and the Hopeless
Dustin Olsen
Staff Writer
Good Charlotte has re-turned
with their second album,
The Young and the Hopeless.
The rock quintet from Washing-ton
D.C. has lived up to it's
reputation with this mature, me-lodic
CD. Any person that has
listened to Good Charlotte will
automatically notice the simi-larities
between this CD and
their debut. Both CD's have
excellent, catchy choruses in all
their songs. Although the sound
may be quite similar to their
debut CD, the band and lyrics
have obviously matured; the in-tense
songs are much more
complex. This CD required the
use six bass guitars where
there was only one guitar on the
first
The brothers Joel and Ben
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musical sense to create songs
that strike down to earth. The
first single "Lifestyles of the
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and how they always seem to
look down on the less fortunate
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Joel's father, while the song
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thinking.
Every song on this CD is
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meaning. This CD is not
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songs "Bloody Valentine" and
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reasonably slower tempos.
Most of the CD is fast-paced,
hard-hitting, and exciting right
from the beginning. It's great
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up to their debut and this is
exactly what this one does. I
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Tool Causes Mayhem and Madness but Still Mesmeriz' es
Dustin Olsen
Staff Writer
The day finally came, Octo-ber
8th, the day I would have a
chance to see Tool! I was so anx-ious
for this concert, I was like a
13 year old girl at an N'SYNC con-cert.
I wondered how Tool would
ever capture the sound, intensity
and feeling of each of their CD's.
I sat, surrounded by a medium
size crowd of just under 5,000
people. anxious to finally have the
chance to experience Tool. The
opening band, Mashuggah, came
onto the stage at about 7:32 and
the concert finally began. I wasn't
a big fan of Mashuggah, partly be-cause
I couldn't understand one
of their angry screaming words,
also because every single song
sounded the same. I actually
thought the names of the songs
were better than their music. Af-ter
the Swedish band screamed
and thrashed for 45 minutes.
Mashuggah FINALLY left the
stage. After a long hour wait, the
lights finally dimmed and the
crowd began to harshly scream.
The two big screens, one on each
side of the stage, started show a
crazy image and the music began.
I couldn't believe how great the
sound was and how "tight" their
playing was.
Finally the lights all around us
began to flash and the huge back
drop lit up showing the shadow of
the lead singer directly in front of
it. The singer looked almost like
an alien with his tall skinny body
and bald, weird shaped head. Tool
played all of their classic songs;
"Anemia" "Lateralus" and
"Stinkfist" all within the first hour
of the concert. After finishing only
one hour of the concert, the Metra
went black. All lights were killed
and all I could hear were fans
screaming and wanting more Tool.
That is when the riot began.
I have always found it humor-ous
that the Metra Park would put
chairs on the floor for a rock con-cert,
turns out I wasn't the only
one. During the darkness I could
faintly see chairs being picked up
and moved to the front of the
stage. After many of the chairs
were lifted and thrown, people
started to pour down from the up-per
arena. Security was frantically
trying to stop the eager people, but
it was no use. After close to a
thousand people stormed onto the
floor, the Metra finally calmed
down. With close to three thou-sand
people crammed onto the
floor of the Metra, a loud shriek
was heard.
The next song was an amaz-ing
experience that lasted close to
25 minutes. When the lights lit up
again, the stage consisted of not
only one set of drums, but two.
The instrumental song began with
the lead singer, who was now in
his underwear, pouring riffs into
the head of the fans. Then the
drummers started into an intense
experience that left me in aw and
wonder. As the music began to
pick up tempo and become more
intense, the drummers were fran-tic,
but still keeping in time. After
that song I could never look at Tool
the same, their is so much more
to them than words could ever say.
Tool ended the concert with
their hit, Schism, which proved to
be their craziest. A disco ball sur-rounded
by more lights was low-ered
from the ceiling and began
to flash, mesmerizing the audi-ence.
With the intensity of the
lights and power of the music, I
was completely and totally sub-merged
in Tool. It was insane.
Tool could be labeled as one
of the craziest bands ever. They
have a very unique sound and ad-vanced
lyrics. I didn't know what
to expect when I went to this con-cert
but I did know I would never
understand it. The mysterious
band has always kept themselves
hidden and away from the media,
so it was real treat to see Tool live.
I have seen many concerts and this
concert had the best lighting period.
Tool captured the crazy sound of
their CD's and the lights definitely
helped. The huge screens gave
every fan a glimpse into the insane
minds of each of the members. It
was an honor to sit in the same
building as these phenomenal mu-sicians
and I'm sorry for any person
that missed this experience.
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[ SPORTS
Munro Becomes the Shining Light for Jacket Spikers
Jesse Kester
S • orts Editor
The MSU-Billings Lady Jack-ets'
volleyball team has seen a fair
share of downs this season. They
are standing at six and ten overall
and two and three in the very tough
PacWest conference, but out of
these ashes has arisen the future
of this Jacket team. This future is
all of 5' 8" tall and goes by the name
Olivia Munro.
Munro is having an awe-inspir-ing
season as a sophomore outside
hitter. Only this was expected after
a freshman season in which she
posted 200 kills on a team that had
three solid hitters ahead of her. She
has also been expected to become
the top offensive threat for the Jack-ets
this year.
Munro has been able to ex-ceed
any expectations placed on
her. This year she has picked up
216 kills in just 16 games, which is
83 more than the next closest
Jacket player. Munro is more than
just offensive power; she is also a
lethal server. She picked up 30 ser-vice
aces in her freshman cam-paign
and has added another 27
thus far in the season.
Munro has proved that she is
no slouch on the defensive side of
the game as well. She is third on the
team with 186 digs and has come
up with seven blocks. With Munro's
unselfish play she has also proved
to her teammates that she is com-mitted
to winning and can be a team
leader.
Munro's leadership ability has
been proven a few times this sea-son.
The best example came in a
match against Hawaii-Hilo earlier in
the season. The Jackets were down
two games to none when they rallied
behind Munro for the win. Munro
picked up 24 kills in 68 attempts while
i adding 17 digs. This op ed up the
court for three other Lady Jax, in-cluding
Kari Gerretsen't 18 kills.
Munro, a native of Toronto,
Ontario, Canada, has proven that
she is a hot commo ty in the
PacWest and when er team
comes around it will b force to
be reckoned with. The are also
very high expectations •laced on
Olivia Munro but if she n use the
same will that allows h get sky-ward
as a 5'8" hitter e should
have nothing but blue -s ahead
of her.
MSU-B Yellowjackets
Play Fall Ball
Jed Barton
Staff Writer
The Yellowjacket softball
team is beginning to prepare it-self
for a tough PacWest Confer-ence
spring schedule, they will
practice and play twelve games
this fall six games during a two-day
road trip to Colorado, a
tripleheader at home against
Dawson Community College, and
a trip to Glendive for one game
against DCC, and two against
Western Nebraska rounding out
the schedule.
"The fall league is a good
opportunity to see where we are
as a team, to plug in the new play-ers
with veterans, and to give the
players an idea of what skills they
need to work on headed into the
spring season" said assistant
coach Sean McGary.
The toughest challenge the
Jackets faced so far this fall was
a doubleheader with the Division
I Colorado State Rams on Sept.
15. " The Rams play the Moun-tain
West Conference with peren ,
nial powers San Diego State and
Utah but in that first game we just
played good solid ball and beat
them" said McGary.
The pitching staff is a young,
one with four sophomores:
Stephanie Cochrun of Lake
Stevens WA, Joey Ehenes of
Great Falls, Megan McCrae of
Brandon Manitoba, and Jordan
Waverek of Kalispell, (expected to
take the hill for the Jackets this
year).
Backing them up in the field
and at the plate will be a mostly
freshman and sophomore lineup
except Junior Terilee Ehene,s who
transferred to MSU-B from Spo-kane
Community College, and the
only senior on the team Meghan
O'Donnell from Billings. "Despite
our young age, the additions we
have made have strengthened the
offence" commented McGary.
Looking ahead to the spring
calendar and PacWest Confer-ence
play, McGary is optimistic.
"Of course the Hawaii teams do
have an advantage due to climate,
namely the ability to play each
other a few times early in the new
year before we fly down. Then
when you look at a program like
North Dakota State in Fargo that
has a much worse weather prob-lem
than we do and they have
played in several NCAA tourna-ments
in recent years, you can't
count yourselves out of the run-ning."
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Cross Country
Rocky Mountain Shoot-out
(Boulder, CO)
Results: No team
scores. Top placer for the
women is Ellen Swogger (29)
and for the men Brian Fosjord
came in 72.
Golf
No Events
Soccer
Men's (4-7)
September 26 University
of Mary (Jacket Field)
Results: Win 1-0 on a
Mark Cipolla goal.
September 28 Western
Washington University
(Bellingham, WA)
Results: Lose 2-0.
September 29 Simon
Fraser University (Burnaby,
B.C.)
Results: Jackets lose 2-
7.
October 5 Seattle Univer-sity
(Seattle, WA)
Results: Jackets take a
2-0 lead at half but lose 2-5.
Women's (2-9)
September 25 Rocky
Mountain College (`Jacket Field)
Results: Lost 1-3
September 28 Seattle Uni-versity
(Seattle, WA)
Results: Lose 0-10.
September 29 Simon Fraser
University (Burnaby, B.C.)
Results: Lose 0-8.
October 5 Jamestown Col-lege
(`Jacket Field)
Results: Jackets get sec-ond
win of the year, 2-0.
Volleyball (6-10, 2-3)
September 24 Rocky Moun-tain
College (Alterowitz)
Results: Jackets get
swept in 3 games.
October 4 Western New
Mexico University (Alterowitz)
Results: Jackets win
three games to one on Olivia
Munro's 21 kills.
October 5 Western New
Mexico University (Alterowitz)
Results: Jackets lose
three games to one
Softball (4-4-1)
September 28 Blue-Gold
Scrimmage (Cenex Stadium)
Results: Blue wins 2-1.
October 5 Dawson Commu-nity
College (Cenex Stadium)
Results: Triple-Header,
all games won by the Jackets [11-
1, 15-1, 10-3]
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Jesse Kester
S•orts Editor
Has it really been that long?
Five short years Lance he gave it up.
On September 27 the greatest bas-ketball
player ever was enshrined in
the Naismith Basketball Hall of
Fame, and no it wasn't Michael Jor-dan.
Earvin "Magic" Johnson walked
up to the podium to accept this ac-complishment.
I remember as a child hating
the Lakers, but always wanting to be
number 32. He was like water on the
court, always flowing and changing
shapes. Bruce Lee once
said, "Be like wa-ter.
Water can
crash and
pound and if
you put
water in a
bottle it is a
bottle. Be
like water."
That was
Magic
Johnson. He
could run the
point and the
fast break better
than any other guard
in the league. Then the next
moment he was boxing for position
better than any other center. Magic
could play any position on the court
and play them well. In the 1980 NBA
Finals, Earvin played every position
on the court, as a rookie.
Few players are so great that
they can change the way a game is
played. Bullet Bob Hayes helped cre-ate
the zone defense in the NFL,
Gretzky changed scoring in the NHL,
and Magic, he invented basketball
as we should know it, a team game.
Magic is also credited with the inven-tion
of the "triple-double." Johnson
changed the game so much that fu-ture
and present fans wish they could
step back in time to see him play.
Whether it be to watch the behind-the-
back pass to a zooming James
Worthy, a half court buzzer beater,
or just an arena-illuminating smile,
they want to see it.
Johnson was also the inventor
of basketball fashion. Maybe the
shorts were a little tight, but there was
a fabric shortage in the '80s. In real-ity
he made basketball graceful and
we all had the purple and gold Con-verse
high tops. We started wearing
goatees and cut our hair short. That
is influence.
They say that HIV took him
away from the game too soon.
Maybe it took him too late. Magic
has done so much without basket-ball
that we might still know him to-day
even if he was not a superstar
hoopster. Since his first retire-ment,
Johnson created
the Magic
Johnson
Foundation
geared for the
younger gen-eration.
He
raises
money for
HIV and
AIDS aware-ness
and re-search.
The
Foundation
also holds events
that draw every
major celebrity from
around the world. This is
how well the man is known.
Magic has also been a great
businessman; going into ghettos
where no one else will go. He has
hired gang members to help build
and work at his "Magic Johnson The-atres"
and put 25 Starbucks in south
central L.A. along with his
"Fatburger" chain of restaurants. He
once said, "People don't stop eating,
they don't stop going to movies, and
they don't stop drinking coffee."
Do not forget that Johnson still
owns part of the Lakers. Magic is
most responsible for reining in Shag
and Kobe from their feuding. Kobe
considers him a brother and now
Magic has a ring for eight fingers.
What do you expect from the most
selfless of men.
When Johnson found out he
had HIV they all stopped and cried.
Isiah Thomas parked his car on the
side of the interstate to mourn. Pat
Riley didn't want to coach, but he did.
Bird, in typical Larry Bird fashion,
was pissed. He called and Johnson
said they could still have a few more
games. Even Jordan was stunned,
"Is he gonna die?" Some day, but
not even Magic can answer when.
He has lived with HIV since Novem-ber
17, 1991 and still no signs of the
illness have affected him.
Those days after he publicized
with the HIV infection were hard. No
one wanted to work out or play with
him. One day a fellow by the name
of Rony Seikaly was rehabbing an
injury. He asked to shoot around with
Magic and it led to one-on-one corn-petition.
They banged and bumped
and sweated on one another.
Johnson remembers that as one of
his favorite days.
Johnson's battles with Bird are
the stuff of legend. They were bitter
rival starting in their college days.
That feud bled into the NBA and
made the game what it is today. Then
one day, who knows why, they be-came
friends. To this day they remain
friends, Bird even gave the introduc-tion
to Johnson at the Hall of Fame.
No one can hate this man and his
friendship with Bird proves it.
Magic has become a living leg-end.
Kids who have never seen him
play flock to him in awe. His battles
on the court are over but his legend
still grows every day. In his induction
speech Johnson said of himself, "You
allowed me 12 or 13 years to be a
little boy, to play the game I love, to
try to be the best player I could be, to
try to win games, and to also turn the
fans on. Hopefully they had as good
a time as I had." So to the star of
"Showtime" we did. We only wish we
could give you half of what we re-ceived.
Janna Marie Huhtala
Junior
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